Posted by so on July 18, 2005, at 1:23:02
In reply to Re: Is this a place you had to go? » so, posted by 10derHeart on July 18, 2005, at 0:18:56
> > I can see how a person who doesn't think black people should sit at the front of the bus would consider a discussion of civil rights struggles threatening, but you don't think anything like that, do you?
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> So, I think merely posing the above question to gg was completely uncalled for and frankly, insulting.
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> I can't imagine what would have caused you to pull such a "speculation," - or whatever it is - out of thin air. Why did you ask her that?
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>It wasn't speculation, it was an affirmation. It was a rhetorical question. It is a way of saying "I know you don't think that." I was saying, even if she did somehow interpret what I wrote as a threat, which it wasn't, it couldn't be a threat to GG because she already said she wouldn't like feeling as if someone was calling her spirituality "Creepy".
What came to mind when I wrote it was my recollection of something Robert Hsiung wrote to NickiT2, when he asked her something like "but you know you're not an antisemite, right?" I reflects a tendency to adopt a predominate rhetorical style of communities to which I write. Now that I think about it, some people reacted to Hsiung's question by saying they didn't appreciate his approach, either.
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