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<DIV><FONT size=2>From: "Damien Broderick" <</FONT><A
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<DIV><FONT size=2>To: "ExI chat list" <</FONT><A
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Sent: Saturday, July 25, 2009 2:00 PM</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Subject: [ExI] usage question</FONT></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>> What hypersensitive literal-mindedness is this?<BR>...
<BR>> "I'm still just amazed that somebody of his level of intelligence
<BR>> could stoop to such a level, and berate me, accuse me of being a
<BR>> racist or racial profiling," Crowley said Thursday with WEEI-AM. "And
<BR>> then speaking about my mother, it's just -- it's beyond words."
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<DIV><FONT size=2>> ... Or is it just that for (white?) working class
USians, mothers <BR>> are sacred and must *never* be so much as *mentioned*
by *anyone* <BR>> except in tones of deepest respect.<BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Yeah, one must pay proper respect and genuflect to Mom
and Apple Pie. Apparently, however, not just mothers are sacred.
Wayne Martin, an official at the Atlanta Housing Authority, had this to
say about the Gates flap: "I'm wondering when it became illegal to be angry
at a law enforcement official."</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>I don't get it, either. A (white) friend of mine told me
that if the same thing had happened with him, t<SPAN
class=515395119-24072009>he police would have been taking him out
in cuffs, too - as he would have gone ballistic.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Olga</FONT></DIV></DIV>
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