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Re: Did they really mean ,,, ? Colour blind or plain insensitive?
Subject:Re: Did they really mean ,,, ? Colour blind or plain insensitive? From:"Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 18 Nov 2003 23:06:27 -0500
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From: "KG Kumar" <kg -at- tug -dot- org -dot- in>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Sent: November 18, 2003 10:53 PM
Subject: Re: Did they really mean ,,, ? Colour blind or plain insensitive?
>
> > Bonnie Granat wrote:
>
> > The text "Protect your PC" is an image. Its color is red.
> > The text "from Microsoft" is an image. Its color is black.
>
> > Perhaps you are color-blind?
>
> Sad to say that my first post to this wonderful, instructive and
> well-moderated list has to do with PC -- "political correctness", not the
> brand of electronic circuity pushed by people with micro-hearts and soft
> wallets. By writing in a stark, staccato style that ends with a "knockout"
> question, the writer of the above mail displays an attitude that, according to
> a dictionary that most of you know, is "lacking feeling or tact", and is "so
> insensitive as to laugh at someone in pain".
>
> Please desist, BG, and do try and understand that you may have been born into
> a language, but there there are many who have struggled to master it. And yes,
> often the Empire Strikes Back!
>
A "knockout" question? Lots of people are color blind. It happens. I meant no
offense. One explanation for confusion might have been that the poster was
color-blind. That's why I asked the question.
I'm sorry that you don't like the way I wrote that post. Once again, I mean no
offense. Incidentally, this topic had nothing to do with how well someone speaks
or writes English. That was a different thread. What "political correctness" has
to do with this thread is another mystery. If you think that color-blindness is
a subject one cannot talk about, you are mistaken.
And what is it that you are asking me to desist from?
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