General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"

----- Original Message ----- From: <cctalk-request at classiccmp.org> To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2012 6:14 PM Subject: cctalk Digest, Vol 110, Issue 24 ----- Reply: As a matter of fact I see a fair bit of that on this list as well, by the same group of regulars: stereotypical judgement and blaming of OUTSIDERS, i.e. ignorant 'lusers' who don't know or care how their computers work, the intricacies of TCP/IP or their operating system, who top post, use M$ software, etc. etc., and are perhaps busy running businesses, performing brain operations, whatever, instead... And Dave is of course implying that he's NOT a member of the group he's disparaging; after all, HE knows that they speak Portuguese in Brazil! As a matter of fact he is in fact echoing and defending the stereotypical view of "people in other countries," i.e. OUTSIDERS... (and thus perhaps even offending some of "them" ;-) So, it's OK to insult and offend members of a certain group with this sort of stereotypical judgement as long as you yourself are a member of that group (albeit presumably one of the exceptions who doesn't fit the stereotype...)? As long as I'm an African-American myself it's OK for me to say "yeah, we really are inferior somehow, and there's a REASON why folks believe that about us"? In that case I do apologize; I naively thought that derogatory stereotypes were sort of inappropriate regardless of the source. m BTW, I have a Brazilian girlfriend, so I not only know that one speaks Portuguese there but I'm also intimately acquainted with the Brazilian wax look...