From: "Max More" <max@maxmore.com>
> At 06:25 PM 12/22/01, you wrote:
> >From: "Mike Lorrey" <mlorrey@datamann.com>
...while local employers prefer to outsource the sort of work I do
> > > to Indian job shops...
> >
> >But racist jibes are old. This is a free country, and I'm 110% behind
> >people using free speech to express themselves. But racist jibes are
old.
>
> Olga, where is the racist jibe? I don't see one. ... He didn't even
*complain*
> about the situation. He simply gave his view of why he lost his job,
fairly
> plausibly.
I took the very fact that Mike posted what he did into consideration. In
the past he has referred to various cultures in South America and Mexico as
kleptocracies, and if I remember correctly - was one of the people who saw
nothing racist in that lovely article that someone posted by Fred Reed. But
(please oh please oh please) we don't need to rehash the Reed screed.
It may in fact be Mike's opinion that he is being displaced by "Indian job
shops." I'm not exactly sure what that is, and I am assuming he didn't mean
"Indians" from a particular Indus Valley civilization, but our own native
kind, yes?
If Mike had said: "...while local employers prefer to outsource the sort of
work I do to Jews ..." would that that have been racist? I think so. Of if
he had said "...while local employers prefer to outsource the sort of work I
do to blacks..." would that have been racist? I think so.
In my own locality of King County, Washington, voters defeated an
Affirmative Action bill not too long ago. Do I think that was racist? Yes.
While some people think Affirmative Action itself is "racist" (even though
the group of people who've benefited the most from Affirmative Action in the
past, I believe, have been "white" women) I think it balances things out
better (and much faster) than if humans were left to root out for the milk
of human kindness on their own.
While Mike may not have been complaining directly, it seemed as if he were
playing a kind of "blame game" with racist overtones, at the very least.
> He simply gave his view of why he lost his job, fairly
> plausibly.
And I've simply given my view of how what Mike said came across to me. I
have nothing against Mike personally.
O.
...while local employers prefer to outsource the sort of work I do
> > > to Indian job shops...
>
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