On 08/25/2016 10:27 AM, John wrote:
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 > Tell that to the security guard manning the metal detector. Rr > > > 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 >
