Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 17:29:05 -0700 (PDT)
From: Maldoror <insektus-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: moorish temple


> Context is never, never, never irrelevant. Let's say
> a hiphopster
> started a band called Nigga Temple...

okay. point taken, and i understand your point about
context.

but, if it's by a hip-hop guy who is black that is
obviously different than some white
academic/philosopher originating a school of thought
called the Nigger Temple.

or take for example someone who's not jewish doing the
same and calling it the Kike Temple. Would that not be
labled anti-semetic.

the fact is that no matter how much we wish to
discredit racial slurs, they have very real
consequences when they become realized and organized
in places groups like the KKK, etc. 

> So calling architecture Moorish is insulting the
> architect? Or the
> building? I'm not quite sure about this one...

Arabic architecture is how every arab i've ever
encountered called it, with annoyance that ppl still
call it moorish. you wouldn't call the architecture of
central african villages nigger architecture would
you?

do you see my point? i'm not trying to be a pain in
this but i think it's important to address these
things.

gr3g

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'every government is a dictatorship. every leader, a tyrant.'   -anonymous 


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