Re: APOLOGY: Unprofessional possesive "Bash head with rock" post

[Jo Francis Byrd <jbyrd -at- byrdwrites -dot- com>]

Sounds like someone needs to get off their politically correct high horse. It's
this kind of nonsense that robs us  of speech, of expression.

Jo Byrd

John David Hickey wrote:

> Greetings!
>
> I've received an angry message from someone who was offended by my reply to
> Meg Halter's question about "Unprofessional possesive". He said:
>
> You are out of line with your broken English.  Totally unprofessional and
> smacks of racism.  It is very clear you mock not only non-English speaking
> people, but especially Asians.  Shame on YOU.
>
> Actually, I wasn't thinking of any ethnic group at all, but it's curious that
> he thought I was. When I wrote this reply, I was picking up on the broken
> English the original poster used in her email (as a funny example)
> and ran with it.
>
> If I was thinking of any group of people, I was thinking of primitive cavemen
> (bash with rock) and I was not targeting any ethnic group.
>
> If I offended anyone on the list with this post, I sincerely apologize, but
> the post was not intended as a racist slur of any kind.
> --
> Be seeing you,
>
> Dave
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> John David Hickey
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