Guardian writer calls for Bush assassination..

[khirkhib]

I'm with you calling for the death of a president is an extremely ugly thing to do.

[khirkhib]

I know that I'm very PC. (Being I was a Peace Corps volunteer) but really AuH20 you shouldn't use clearing insulting vocabulary like that.  Aren't the British are allies.  Do you want to alinate them.  I was born in England so I may be a little bit more sensitive to that term but really you aren't enhancing the dialog.  I'm sure you have fun phrases for Muslims and French too and Al you shouldn't call him a Nazi.  A fascist maybe but leave off the historical context.

[khirkhib]

Don't know boss, What do you want me to do?

[khirkhib]

xenophone (as far as I know) is not an insult.  It is a fear and hate of people different than yourself.  Xenophobes tend to use racial and nationalistic slurs, as you had.  And I'm not telling you can't hurt his feelings or tell him that he is wrong you just don't have to resort to stupid insults to do that.

[khirkhib]

I don't think Yankee and Limey are parallel words.
I would get in a huff whenever people in the DR called me a Gringo though.  They didn't know it was an insult and I told them the history of the word and that I would perfer that they not use the term. I don't want to sound like my skin is so soft that I can't take even the slightest barb but you were using the word to insult him.  If you look through the thread you were the instigator.  Sure you probably don't care but I don't think we need to drop our discourse to insults.

[khirkhib]

That isn't a defense that is a distraction.  All I said was that I don't think we should use insults on the boards.  Is that a horrible thing to say?