"Ken Fortenberry" wrote in message
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You're as disingenuous as he is. You know that it is racist
when a prick like Rick (white, that is) calls a person of
color a monkey and a chimp.

nonsense. You're making assumptions based on another individual's thought
pattern, which you cannot possibly discern. Further, you ought to know as
well as I that Rick isn't putting all that much deep thought into a ROFF
post.
Person of color? Is every person not Anglo-Saxon now a 'person of color' for
which we should be overly sensitive in our descriptions? Geez, Louise, you
take the White Man's Burden to unprecedented levels, Ken.

Who knew ? You did.

I know Politically Correct silliness when I read it. The man's point was
basic: Chavez is threatening to cut off oil to the US. Doing so would kill
his own economy, so is likely a hollow threat, in the near-term. As I said,
I wouldn't use the word Chimp to describe Chavez, reserving that for GWB,
but certainly didn't recoil in horror at any overt racism when I read Rick's
use of it.
Further, I wouldn't have read it that way if you, Jeff Miller, Giles, or
LaCourse used the term. It was disparaging, it clearly was NOT racist. Get
off your high horse, Ken, because all I'm seeing is the steed's rear end.

Tom