Posted by Deputy Dinah on June 22, 2009, at 17:04:03
In reply to Re: Please be civil, posted by Sigismund on June 16, 2009, at 17:22:08
> When people say 'but the white race(sic) may become extinct', I think 'if only'.
> Present company excepted of course.
Sigismund, do you think it would be civil for someone to post that same sentence with a race other than white? Do you think it would be ok if you substituted "black" or "jewish" and excepted black people or Jewish people who are posting?
I'm not personally hurt by this. I never even understood the concept of race. Isn't ethnicity a better term? I had a friend from, oh goodness, I'm terrible at geography, but somewhere in South America. She never could figure out the emphasis on race here because she, and most of her neighbors where she came from, had a heritage of all sorts of people so that she would not know where to begin to list her race. I thought that was a pretty cool notion.
I think it perfectly likely that that's what you meant. But the civility guidelines can't say you can make that statement about one "race" and not another. And I as deputy, for ethical reasons of my own, can either allow it for all races, or disallow it for all races. I cannot in good conscience decide which races that it would be ok to wish extinction for.
With this in mind, do you think you could rephrase your retraction to cover more than the white people on this board?
Dinah, acting as deputy to Dr. Bob
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