[geeks] just for you guys....

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Sat Apr 13 22:48:03 CDT 2002


On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 11:24:09PM -0400, alex j avriette wrote:
> >That's like placing an absolute value on language, when we know it is 
> >all in how you interpret it - the context of *anything* is the most 
> >important component.  Making fun of "fat chicks" or "skinny geeks" or 
> >any other stereotype is just wrong, even if it is "just electrons on a 
> >disk."  Mein Kampf was just words on a page, and look what that led 
> >to.  6 million dead ain't chump change.
> 
> how sad it must be to live in a mind that can compare a genocide to a 
> web page.

Fallacy.  He was comparing a web page to a book.  You substituted the 
consequences related to the book to the web page.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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