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  • From: EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] The longest post yet-Anger
  • Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:10:06 -0500



Marie McHarry wrote:
I'm not Moon, but I'd probably say something like, The guys in the
barn are talking about....

I suppose that works if all the guys in the barn are of the same group.
What works in a monoculture often does not work in a multiculture.

Bev




On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 6:49 PM, EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:
Moon, You said you had worked side by side with "unpapered Mexicans",
which to me sounds degrading, like they are dogs or something. Are you
sure they were all Mexicans? No Guatamalans or Salvadorans? Let me
ask you this..
Say you are in a big barn full of race horses and you are working with
'immigrants' who speak Spanish(how's that for unlabeling due to race?)
Suppose you hear a group of those immigrants talking about a horse who
appears to be doped. When you go to tell the barn owner what you have
heard, what do you say?
A. I heard the Hispanics talking of doping allegations?
B. I heard the immigrants who speak Spanish talking of doping allegations.
C. I heard people talking about doping allegations
D. I heard that there are doping allegations.
E. I heard the aliens talking about doping allegations.
F. I heard unpapered Mexicans talking about doping allegations.
G. I heard the illegal immigrants talking about doping allegations.
H. None of the above.

Now, if you choose C or D, the next question the owner asks you is going
to be 'what people?'. If you choose G, that is threatening to the
owner. If you choose E, the owner will call 911 for you.
A seems most logical to me, but that would be labeling and
grouping-which you don't like, so perhaps you would say B.? B just
seems awkward to me.

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