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>>As a Japanese person, I'm rather offended by this remark!
>Me Too!
OH for pity sake, get a life! It was a joke, not a personal slam. I am
so sick and tired of people getting offended over a silly comment.
Oriental people have slanted eyes, it's a fact of life, deal with it.
QUITCHERBITCHIN. (I have round eyes, and would much rather have a lovely
slant to my eyes than plain old round ones that are kinda droopy).
And I have the guts to send this with my name attached. Flame away if
you feel the need. I can hit delete with the best of them.
Ok Big, I'm done with my rant. Send it or delete it, I got it off my
chest. :D
Shelley and the five fuzzy round eyed ferrets.
[Moderator's note: I knew I was in for trouble when I let that
potentially offensive comment through and it was not done without some
consideration.
Lots of things come to mind here: like the OVER-sensitivity that some
people seem to have -- as well the LACK of sensitivity some other people
seem to have! I try to not let me personal feelings get in the way of
deciding if posts go through but of course that's not 100% possible.
In this case I decided that pointing out a physical difference without
obvious derogatory implications is not by itself defamatory. And once
that was decided, wrong or right, a lot of these side comments are all
the more silly (to me). (Personally I was somewhat offended too, tho
I'm not really sure why... perhaps knowing some people might be bothered
by the remark raised the red flags. BIG]
[Posted in FML issue 4670]
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