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ray <xxxrayted@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> In article <atropos-51D681.16391123112007@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Thanatos <atropos@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> > In article <ugG1j.70789$YL5.1317@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > "Jim" <jim@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> > > "ray" <xxxrayted@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > news:xxxrayted-082905.13110524112007@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > In article <isD1j.2824$fl7.229@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > > "Jim" <jim@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> "ray" <xxxrayted@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > >> news:xxxrayted-49EA97.15334318112007@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > >> > In article <atropos-358005.15131917112007@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > >> > Thanatos <atropos@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > >> >> American since only one is labeled that way. Why isn't
> > > >> >> the white doll a Caucasian-American"?
> >
> > > >> > It would be that way if white Americans were only 18% of the
> > > >> > population.
> > > >>
> > > >> The overwhelming majority of "Caucasians" do NOT live in the
> > > >> USA......
> >
> > > > But, the majority of people in the USA are white.
> > >
> > > Define "White". Me? You? Michael Jackson?
> >
> > The same semantic trickery can be used the other way, too.
> >
> > Define "African-American". The politically-correct intelligentsia
> > usually just defines it as anyone who is black and leaves it at that
but
> > what about blacks descended from Australian aborigines, for example?
> > They would be more properly labeled Australian-Americans but that's
not
> > what happens.
> >
> > Likewise, white people from Africa are accurately described as
> > African-American but are still ineligible from benefits/scholar****ps
> > that are earmarked as such.
>
> Thank you Teresa Kerry.
See what I mean? Semantics are fine for the Left but if anyone else
parses words the way they do, out comes the sarcasm and personal insults.
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