Bubba
Jan 24, 2007, 9:50 AM
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Re: [dlyman6500] Saying Goodbye - Disparaging Remarks
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You know, Dlyman, I remember that guy threatening you by saying he was younger than you and, basically, could whip your ass. I have been posting on these forums for almost six years and, as you know, have never retreated from controversy. but I´ve never seen an open threat of violence in all that time except for that post. You were wise to avoid that guy. He´s off his rocker to do that. Some guy used to threaten me in PMs a while back but never in a public post.
I want to say one more thing about Jean´s post concerning disparaging remarks and her self-proclaimed thin skin. All humans are prejudiced by nature. In fact, prejudice arises from experience and is a way that our brains help us navigate life. If you are a Sunni walking down the street in Bahgdad and see a bunch of armed Shiites in the back of a pickup truck, you pre-judge that it would be prudent of you to duck into the nearest coffee house for a while to avoid being tortured to death.
Jean is upset that posters from The U.S. make prejudicial remarks, albeit often in a light hearted vein, about Canadians. Because of that, she elects to avoid the forums on Mexico Connect.
In 1967, shortly after the Watts Riots, I moved from Alabama to Los Angeles. I went to compete in the banking job market with a thick southern accent and a degree from a substandard southern state university during a time when the civil rights struggle was at its peak. As a white boy from Alabama I had the Freedom Riders, Birmingham police dogs, a presumption that I was an ignorant racist and all this other baggage riding on my back. Now, when you are in your 20s, poverty stricken and trying to make a meager living, the notion of your inferiority because of your region of origin becomes quite a burden to overcome. Well, I didn´t have the option of simply fading away so I went to interviews with all that baggage and, eventually, won the game. After a while, I learned that the thick southern accent worked to my advantage because so many people I met thought I was an ignorant clodhopper and competed with me carelessly. I often kicked their butts and I still do. I dealt in words for a living and you don´t mess with no southern boy when it comes to word wars.
So, my point, Jean, is this. Never get angy, get even.
(This post was edited by Bubba on Jan 24, 2007, 9:54 AM)
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