news:1goew60.118dn6d12f9kh9N%johnSPAM@wilkins.id.au...
> Chris Thompson <cthompson@TAKEOUTbmcc.cuny.edu> wrote:
>
> > "Uncle Davey" <noway@jose.com> wrote in news:cot1qd$g92$0@pita.alt.net:
> >
> > >
> > >> In article <1go5rcs.1h712vp1s8qhefN%johnSPAM@wilkins.id.au>,
> > >> John Wilkins <johnSPAM@wilkins.id.au> wrote:
> > >> >Chris Thompson <cthompson@TAKEOUTbmcc.cuny.edu> wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> >> "Uncle Davey" <noway@jose.com> wrote in
> > >> >> news:cokmni$4h0$0@pita.alt.net:
> > >> >>
> > >> >> >
> > >> >> > news:Xns95B154247508B2galopagosterrapincy@128.8.10.18...
> > >> >> >> AC <mightymartianca@hotmail.com> wrote in
> > >> >> >> news:slrncqn8t1.d1.mightymartianca@aaronclausen.alberni.net:
> > >> >> >>
> > >> >> >>
> > >> >> >> > (I still think Uncle Davey should stop referring to Muslims
> > >> >> >> > as Muzzles, it's disrespectful and hateful).
> > >> >> >>
> > >> >> >> Agreed
> > >> >> >>
> > >> >> >
> > >> >> > When J. K. Rowling stops referring to non new age people as
> > >> >> > 'Muggles' then I'll stop referring to Islamists as "Muzzles". It
> > >> >> > may not be as
> > >> >>
> > >> >> Um, Rowling is writing *fantasy*. Just to get that clear. And
> > > "muggles"
> > >> >> aren't "non new age people". They are fictitious people who are
> > >> >> incapable of using magic.
> > >> >
> > >> >And Rowling has her characters make it perfectly clear it is a term
> > >> >of bigotry, ignorance and prejudice. So far, Davey, you're batting a
> > >> >thousand, as the Anericans say.
> > >>
> > >> Actually it is "mudblood" that is the term of bigotry, ignorance, and
> > >> prejudice. "Muggle" is used by pretty much everyone in the books
> > >> (even the highly enlightened Dumbledore) to describe non-magical
> > >> folk.
> > >
> > > Thank goodness somebody around here knows what they're talking about
> > > instead of shooting off at the mouth without having anything in the
> > > head to show for it.
> > >
> > > Uncle Davey
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Note that Alan was not *supporting* your behavior. He was correcting
> > John Wilkins.
>
> And I still think that "Muggle" is a term of discrimination in Rowling's
> wizard world. Mr Weasley's obsession with Muggle artifacts is regarded
> by Wizards with disdain, remember? The fact that Muggle parentage makes
> Hermione a Mudblood is sufficient to support that interpretation.
I think that this is beside the point. The people who support Voldemort want
to destroy the Muggles, and the Order of the Phoenix want to help the
Muggles, but they still call them Muggles. The pejorative term is
"Mudbloods". No member of the Order of the Phoenix would refer to Hermione
as a Mudblood, but they would call her a Muggle.
Well, I'm not calling Muslims Muzbloods, I'm calling them Muzzlemanians, or
Muzzles for short.
And sticks and stones and aircraft bashing into the sides of buildings can
break my bones, but names can never hurt me.
> >
> > I also note that you make an unmarked snip in Alan's post. Let's just
> > restore that, eh?
> >
> > ***START EXCISED MATERIAL***
> > It doesn't make the mental gymnastics required to justify the behavior
> > any less impressive, however. Bravo.
> >
> > Alan
> > ***END***
> >
> > Kind of looks like Alan also thinks your behavior in this regard stinks.
> >
> > Just keep piling sleazy act upon sleazy act. I am sure some deity
> > somewhere is keeping score.
It's not sleazy to snip aspects that you are not speaking to, it is
required.
Uncle Davey
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