Need a little outside opinion (General Discussion)

Need a little outside opinion // General Discussion

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silenced

Apr 25, 2002, 1:59am
Can someone tell me how saying idiocy is a racial remark? Just need
confirmation that idiocy means that the said action is stupid. Unless I
missed something and it's somehow related to a racial remark in some odd
negated alternate universe where idiots are a race.

--Bowen--

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scooby doo

Apr 25, 2002, 2:42am
Well from the Oxford dictionary new edition:
idiocy noun 1 the state of being an idiot. 2 stupid behaviour ; a stupid
action.

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ptolemy

Apr 25, 2002, 3:18am
Hm this you might find informative
http://www.pagetutor.com/idiot/idiot.html




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lioness e

Apr 25, 2002, 3:26am
Reminds me of when I was joking around at the gate area 2 months ago, and in
a sarcastic comment said "Everyone here tonight is an idiot". Some person
who doesn't know me or my sense of humor (however bad it may be) suddenly
started cussing at me in whisper, telling me I was mean, and how dare I say
that to the nice people at the gate, etc, etc. This "idiot" dragged me over
the coals for more than an hour, using language I dare not repeat here, no
matter how much I tried to explain myself. My friends at the Gate tried to
explain to him that I was only joking around, but he would not let up on the
4 and 5 letter word barrage of insults he hurled at me. All because I said
in jest that someone was an "idiot". I have NEVER known that word to be
racially connected, nor THAT much of an insult to ANYONE. I wonder....are
you asking because someone in AW gave you a hard time also for using that
word???? I wonder if it's the same person. I'm ready to start up a
collection to buy that man some Valium. Let me know sometime who it was so
we can rally to get this guy some professional help. ;-"D



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scooby doo

Apr 25, 2002, 3:58am
LOL...thanks for that bit of idiocy Ptolemy...I needed that.... ; )


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dotar sojat

Apr 25, 2002, 4:17am
Last I checked most of the human "race" are idiots. So I guess in that sense
it could be racial.

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scooby doo

Apr 25, 2002, 4:28am
I think that would be a racial statement only if that statement came from a
non human or alien race.


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count dracula

Apr 25, 2002, 6:21am
As far as I know idiocy is not partculart bound to nay race or culture,but
one run into it in all races,cultures .It somehow seems tho that some
partiucular "groups" has more representatives of idiots than other;I cannot
go into it here tho,because then I would be a racist.
One thing I have been wondering about tho.The black people in America wants
them to be called african-american,,I mean could they not choose any longer
and more completed name,,what is wrong with negro?So i started to speculate
a bit on this matter.Should the white people be refered to as
europen-americans and people from asia as asian-americans.And what about a
child that has a african-american mother and an european-amercian
father,,would he/she be african-european-american?
and imagine the person who is african-asian-american and marry a
european-australian-american,then they move to Europe and have
children,,what are these children then?
african-asian-australian-american-european?
My point is..why do some words meaning one thing suddenly become bad and we
have to invent new ones?Why do two or several words meaning the excatly same
thing has such a huge status difference.One word is acceptable to say and
the other not,although they both take your thought to excatly the same
thing.

Drac
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> Can someone tell me how saying idiocy is a racial remark? Just need
> confirmation that idiocy means that the said action is stupid. Unless I
> missed something and it's somehow related to a racial remark in some odd
> negated alternate universe where idiots are a race.
>
> --Bowen--
>
> Have $3... want a website?
> http://www.smartpenguin.com/affiliate.php?id=12
>
>
>

dotar sojat

Apr 25, 2002, 8:45am
I take it you are assuming that I am human? Can you prove it? LOL

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nornny11

Apr 25, 2002, 9:11am
Could you set up the situation more clearly? :)

To my knowledge, race doesn't play any part in the word idiocy. The word is
derived from classical Greeks. Idiots were people who didn't hold public
office and therefore were ignorant of current affairs. :) *google search*
Unless you're a 2nd century BC Greek guy, I see no racial connontation.
Although, do you even really need a race to be offended from someone calling
you an idiot?

Nornny

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silenced

Apr 25, 2002, 9:46am
Well, LoL. Someone kept pestering me to go see their build. When I finally
gave up with my "ugh, fine" comment I went to see. When I got there I was
looking around and saw the majority of building to be of stone1, which
doesn't look very good with the other textures he was using. So I told him
that I didn't like it, then he kept dragging it on and said I was one of the
only ones who didn't blah blah blah, then his friend started telling me to
shut up.. heated discussion later, I told his friend a bad thing, mainly
because I wasn't talking to him. Then he has one of his friends gram me and
I asked her to stop, she didn't, she said she was a better builder, blah
blah blah. Asked me why I critisized his building, and I told her that it
was very ugly with stone1, then she said more about her being a better
builder. I told her that if he wanted me to come, then expect an opinion
about bad textures and whatnot, not that I'm just going to go "GREAT!" I
mean if it's bad, I'm going to tell you why I think it's bad. But he
couldn't take it, so I told her he was an idiot in short. Then she said
that's a racial slur, blah blah blah. That's basically it. That set it up
for ya?

--Bowen--

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scooby doo

Apr 25, 2002, 11:28am
LOL....good come back : D


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sw chris

Apr 25, 2002, 4:36pm
Valium wouldn't be powerful enough...

SW Chris


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lioness e

Apr 26, 2002, 8:52am
LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dontchya love it???? Happens to me all the time. A new
builder asks ya to look at his/her "creation" and asks for yer opinion or
help. And when you offer the suggestions/advice they take offense. Never
fails. That's why I stopped offering my advice/suggestions/opinions on most
amateur builds. Cause the builders simply are not mature enough to be open
to suggestions or new ideas, or to take constructive criticism. ;-"D



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silenced

Apr 26, 2002, 11:05am
Yeah, I'm going to stop now. I said "Stone1 looks very ugly" meaning with
all his textures.. plus it looks horrible overall. Then he goes "you're the
only one who thinks so!" But then I remembered he needed my help fixing his
parking lot (it looked horrible.. overlaps, bad colors, etc). Then he has
all his friends harass me because he asked for my opinion and didn't like
it.

--Bowen--

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