On August 25, 2016 1:12:19 PM EDT, Razer <ray...@riseup.net> wrote: > > >On 08/25/2016 09:59 AM, John wrote: >> >> >> On August 25, 2016 12:30:04 PM EDT, Razer <ray...@riseup.net> wrote: >>> >>> >>> On 08/25/2016 07:44 AM, John Newman wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> "Rapey Jakey" - I thought it was kinda funny , heh ;) >>>> >>>> John >>>> >>> >>> >>> In an eight-grade schoolyard sort of way... Not even up to the level >of >>> Fratboy follies... At my school in Brooklyn you would have had your >>> face >>> punched in. Which is why I never cared for the 'computer industry'. >>> Someone would get hurt. I don't get along well with assholes. Never >>> did. >>> SOME PEOPLE tell me it's one of my more adorable qualities but >they're >>> probably lying. >>> >>> Rr >> >> The phrase seemed so ironically juvenile, on purpose or not, who >cares... I sure as fuck don't think it's worth getting worked up into a >lather over. >> >> John >> > > >Sorry. Disagree. Words matter. I know that's not a popular take with >the >Psychopathic mainstream of American corporate society, so let me >elucidate. > > >At the beginning of the Iraq war (the second, perpetual one) I was >reading an article in the SF Chron by an 'embedded' reporter. > >He was interviewing a grunt who had beat his way to Baghdad to occupy >it >and was discussing a civilian woman, whom the grunt had killed in the >process. > >The grunt replied, in frustration "I'm sorry ... but the bitch got in >the way" > >Words depersonalize, dehumanize, and sometimes, inside the office or >outside it, can get your head blown off.As the security guard at the >door of your workplace will tell you as you go through the metal >detector... > >But in ioerror's case, I suspect he's more stable than ANY of the >people >who vilified and demonized him. Good thing that, eh? Or Torproject >could have ended with a BANG! > >Rr
It's apples and oranges man. We aren't talking about something that was said by a fucked up soldier in a war zone. Words do matter, but so does context. John -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
