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Date Posted: 04:19:13 02/09/00 Wed
Author: bnimble
Subject: Alienation
In reply to: jack 's message, ""outside of the box"? You've got to be kidding" on 21:40:56 02/03/00 Thu

> >
> > > Would we send thousands of teams to the Olympics?
> >
> > Who's this "we", white man?
>
> I'm very sorry about being white; I should have
> spoken to my mother about that before I was born, but
> I was just an embryo at the time.

No need to apologize. I don't.

> Anyhoo, good luck in advancing your ideas whilst
> simultaneously alienating those who might agree with
> you. Sounds like a winning strategy.

How does one alienate those who might agree
with him? I'm confused as I've always thot
alienation implied disagreement. Care to
comment?

> If you hate white people, I'm sure they'd be more than
> happy to reciprocate the favor. Hey, I'm starting to
> feel a "we" coming on!

"We" on, oh tribal one.

As Tworocks said below, the "white man" expression
was something you've obviously not heard.

I have a question:

Do you always include folks in your plans/ideas, i.e.
the use of the word we?

Suppose I reserve the claim to be excluded. Would
you allow that?

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