[Henry M]

College, perhaps, but educated? Don't think so. Thanks for showing us 
the difference between racist and hate speech. First post?!

Bonnie, John Rigney's message to the list is hate speech. The "joke" 
wasn't. It was simply racist, which given Rigney's mess(age), isn't 
as bad as hate.

FYI, this Kabal that Rigney seems so afraid of has often been quite 
at odds with eachother. 

I won't resort to the puerile taunts of Rigney. However, if he would 
like to visit Washington, DC some day, I would demand satisfaction. 

Hey, hey, hey. Thats what I say.

> To:            Pynchon-l at waste.org
> From:          John Rigney <jrigney at rigneyassoc.com>
> Date:          Tue, 25 Feb 1997 02:08:56 -0800

> Following is a content analysis of the roughly seventeen responses to Gary
> Elshaw's posting of the Lord's Prayer in Ebonics:
> 
> DISCLOSURE
> 
> I am white, college-educated.  I don't think the Simpsons or Seinfeld are
> funny.  I didn't laugh at the Ebonics version of the Lord's Prayer, but I
> have laughed heartily at other Ebonics translations on the Web. The Ebonics
> translation of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is almost as much fun to read
> as Coleridge's version.  I have read Pynchon-l longer than any of those
> mentioned below have posted in it.  This is my first post.
> 
<snip>

> FINDING #4: BONNIE KYBURZ -- MOTORMOUTH
> 
> Bonnie needs to hear a real hate speech.  My guess is that she knows that
> jokes are not hate speeches and was just shooting off her mouth.  However,
> her second post was more offensive than her first.  In the second post, she
> offered an apology to "anyone offended by (her) comments."  This was clearly
> a sop thrown to her fellow frequent-posters, who had registered disagreement
> with her earlier tirade.  She never did apologize to Gary Elshaw directly,
> despite having called him a public racist.  At the end of her second post,
> she guessed that she should just keep it personal.  Bonnie, please do.
> 
> Recommendation: Burn a cross on this woman's lawn, and then tell her it was
> just a joke. 

AsB4
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