--- In
cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "david_russell_watson" <liberty@...>
wrote:
>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@> wrote:
> >
> > So because of his sang impur he had opinions a real Frenchman
> > (a non-miscegenated one) wouldn't have?
>
> A stupid notion, isn't that? Though reading it I get a
> feeling of déjà vu. Now where might I have come across
> such a suggestion before?
>
> Oh yes, I remember now. It was at
>
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/9203 .
Out of curiosity: Your boyfriend's black, right?
That remark I made because I found it amusing that the god Thor, the
legend of whom I wondered might be based on a person who actually
existed, might have had ancestors from Africa. And I do think
temperament is partially genetic. But I think there is difference
between implying people might be hot-headed because of race and
disqualifying their opinions because of race. I would personally not
be offended by the former, but I would be by the latter.
By maybe we should ask Andrew if he feels offended by any of the two
episodes, and if by both which one he feels is most offensive, if he
wants to, that is?
Torsten