Re: (Back-Talk) Kathy Lee Gifford

On Jul 1, 11:42=A0am, Alexandra Ceelie <the.netkit...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Noinden wrote:
> > On Jun 30, 9:55 pm, Alexandra Ceelie <the.netkit...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > wrote:
> >> Noinden wrote:
> >>> Ren, honestly this was not directed at Neopagans. Come on!
> >> I don't know... I think I'm with ren on this one.
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> >> The question she was asking may not have been about neopagans, but
her
> >> delivery left little question as to her feelings on the subject.
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> >> It was akin to calling Jews nasty and bad... and trying to cover up
> >> saying, "Oh, she didn't mean YOU guys... she meant the ones who have
> >> been dead for a few thousand years..."
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> >> Blah. A slur is a slur.
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> >> It wasn't funny. It wasn't tasteful... and as a public spokesperson
she=

> >> really ought to have known better than to send such a hateful
message.
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> >> My thoughts.
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> >> =3D^..^=3D
> >> Xandra
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> > Ahhh but one assumes she even knew what a neopagan was? It's not a
> > slur, we as a sub culture have co-opted a term, that to be honest
> > Christians have been using in a certain way longer than we have.
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> > Further more, no Paleopagans (the term for the prechristian ones, and
> > yes a modern term) would have called them selves "pagans". Thus it's
> > not a slur.
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> > To go furhter, the ring on the other hand.... is culturally specific,
> > and many cultures did not even do the ring thing, QED who cares?
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> > Sorry but we look like wankes when we react like this!
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> React like what? Having an opinion? I would feel the same had any other
> cultural reference been made and she said the same thing.
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> Besides, it wasn't about the question... it was her snide commentary.
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> found it offensive and unnecessary, and if being a "Wank" is the price I
> pay for having that opinion and voicing it, so be it.
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> =3D^..^=3D
> Xandra- Hide quoted text -
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Reacting like it was a deliberate attack on Pagans. It was not.