Subject: Black&Brown versus White criticism - a caricature
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 11:46:01 +0200


Black&Brown versus White Criticism - a caricature of how others see you in
a debate involving gauntlets and hydrophobia. A question of style?

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Black&Brown Criticism  (with the odd exception) -

Dear Mr Dickens, being white as you keep pointing out, maybe you haven't
considered...
Dear Mr Dickens, don't you think you may be living just a bit too much in
your own rather comfortable little world...
Dear Mr Dickens, I'm afraid what you say is quite contradictory and doesn't
hold water...
Dear Mr Dickens, the problems in our part of the world are particularly
tricky, and I don't honestly think you've really grasped the essence...
Dear Mr Dickens, I simply can't agree with what you say, since you couldn't
actually have any genuine experience of...

White Criticism - (with the odd exception) -

Eric! I am incensed, outraged, utterly shocked and devastated by your
blatantly racist garbage...
Eric! How dare you utter such hegemonic drivel! The very fact you take up
this subject proves beyond a shadow of doubt that...
Eric! If I had my way, cunning linguists like yourself would be censored out
of this and every other list. But, getting back to the subject of the
postprandial theory of syntactic theme narrative...
Eric! Flabbergasting! People like you make Alfred Rosenberg and Count
Gobineau look like...
Eric! We ask the questions!!! How can a tediously reactionary British
translator like you...

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Best wishes,

Eric Dickens



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