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Skunks · 07-17-2004, 11:01 AM

Or they're all just too busy rehearsing Christmas songs to catch any subversives.

Incidentally, I'll be catching a flight in a few hours. The last time I went to Phoenix, I lost two or three really great wrenches because we were running a little late and I forgot to take my bike tools out of my backpack.

Really, that's what worries me about traveling. A more fundamentally American (conservative capitalist) fear: that the regulations designed to protect me will instead tear from my grasp some of my Precious Stuff.

I realize she claims she's not a racist by citing some other trip she took, but that doesn't change the fact that she, well, is; the centerpiece of her argument seems to be race. It would be excusable if she were discussing a fundamentally race-based issue (yarmulkes), but it's just unnecessary here. <i>Any</i> 14 men who boarded an airplane separately but interacted as a group would have been cause for alarm. 14 <a href="http://imdb.com/title/tt0208092/">Jewish</a> men, even. But by calling them "men of middle-eastern decent" every time they sneeze she suggests that their race is important. She cites the language they speak along side how they act, as if it were just as damning; if racism isn't fear brought on by someone's place of origin and spoken language, what is?

07-17-2004, 11:01 AM	#5
Skunks I thought I changed this. Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: western nowhere, ny Posts: 412	Or they're all just too busy rehearsing Christmas songs to catch any subversives. Incidentally, I'll be catching a flight in a few hours. The last time I went to Phoenix, I lost two or three really great wrenches because we were running a little late and I forgot to take my bike tools out of my backpack. Really, that's what worries me about traveling. A more fundamentally American (conservative capitalist) fear: that the regulations designed to protect me will instead tear from my grasp some of my Precious Stuff. I realize she claims she's not a racist by citing some other trip she took, but that doesn't change the fact that she, well, is; the centerpiece of her argument seems to be race. It would be excusable if she were discussing a fundamentally race-based issue (yarmulkes), but it's just unnecessary here. <i>Any</i> 14 men who boarded an airplane separately but interacted as a group would have been cause for alarm. 14 <a href="http://imdb.com/title/tt0208092/">Jewish</a> men, even. But by calling them "men of middle-eastern decent" every time they sneeze she suggests that their race is important. She cites the language they speak along side how they act, as if it were just as damning; if racism isn't fear brought on by someone's place of origin and spoken language, what is? Last edited by Skunks; 07-17-2004 at 11:04 AM.