[ale] OT: Security code on Credit/Debit cards revisited

[Damon L. Chesser]

On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 21:11:05 -0400
"Michael B. Trausch" <mike at trausch.us> wrote:

> On 03/23/2010 08:02 PM, Richard Bronosky wrote:
> > I've defended nothing except the English language and society. The
> > following words all have descrete meanings:
> > Stereotyp e
> > Predjudice
> > Segregation
> > Discrimination
> > Racism
> >
> > They are often practiced in conjunction with. one another. However,
> > their meanings are different and the differences should be known. We
> > should be teaching these things to our children. I was taught this
> > in school and it made an impression on me. Of these 5 words the
> > last one is the most dispicable. It has no possitive application.
> >
> > I would suggest looking those terms up in a dictionary that predates
> > the redefining of those terms by the modren media. Maybe something
> > before about 1975.
> 
> Invalid argument; language is a moving target---it always has been.
> You could, using the very same logic you are using here, go back far
> enough in the English vocabulary to a point where the word didn't
> exist at all and say that it isn't a word.  That is beside the point

Disagree.  I don't like mexican food.  I am prejudiced against trying
new Mexican food.  That does *not* make me a racist.  I don't
like Mexican cultural.  Again, that
makes me prejudicial against some cultural practices in Mexico but
does not make me a racist.

I hate Mexicans makes me a racists at worst, a Nationalist at best.


> 
> Don't insult my intelligence by trying to make an argument that is 
> fallacious in nature and expecting me to buy it.
> 
> 	--- Mike
> 



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Damon L. Chesser
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