Subject: Re: (urth) Proposed Gene Wolfe Symposium
From: Josh Geller 
Date: 28 Jul 2003 11:08:05 -0700

On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 08:49, Andy Robertson wrote:
> You astonish me.

Yeah, I astonish myself sometimes.

> There is no polite way to say "fuck you, jew boy" either, but the fact that
> you are presumably jewish does not give you a free pass to deal out racial
> insults like this.

What does being a Jew have to do with anything? I am, in fact, 
ethnically ashkenazi, but everyone who sees me considers me to
be a white person, as I consider myself to be a white person.

Ashkenazi are all pretty white, and about half of us aren't even 
a little bit middle-eastern looking.

> You owe the whole list an apology.

I don't see that. I didn't insult the whole list. I insulted Dan,
and I have apologized to Dan.

If you feel insulted by my insulting Dan, I suppose it doesn't cost
me anything to apologize to you. I'm sorry, Andy. 




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