Posted by Lou Pilder on June 13, 2005, at 13:31:32
In reply to Re: Lou's request to Jen Star and others » Lou Pilder, posted by JenStar on June 13, 2005, at 12:46:11
> Lou, I certainly had no ulterior motives to compare any person or group of persons to the Nazi regime. I was completely unaware of that metaphoric use by Hitler. I'm certainly sorry if the reference upset you, and I had no intent of referencing Hitler or the Nazis in any way.
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> However, I think the common and colloquial usage of the word "virus" are very well understood and would not be interpreted by anyone as referring to Hitler-like activities. To me, I think using the word "virus" should be completely acceptable because it is a very normally used word that does not, in most circumstances, EVER refer to Nazis or Hitler.
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> I think that if you have a serious sensitivity to this word, it's unfortunate, and I'm sorry you do. But it's a very common word. I would encourage you to NOT assume people would ever mean the Hitler reference when they use the word "virus" because that is an extremely uncommon reference.
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> take care,
> JenStar
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JenStar,
You wrote,[...the word "virus" should be...acceptable...].
I have no objection to using the word,"virus" as in someone writing that they have a virus, or a virus causes ulcers, or a virus is hard to see under an electron microscope and such.
The metaphor of ,[...like a virus...] I think is different.
And in your post, you wrote something like,[...I hope that they don't multiply like a virus and some language that has the potential to mean that the board would be taken over by these people that the post was referrring to.
Lou
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