--- Elisabeth Carvalho wrote: > No Dear Mario, > > It is you who are being extremely silly and I will > demonstrate why with an example, which unfortunately > is a true one. > > Back in those days, there used to be establishments > (restaurants and clubs) in Dubai which were "members > only", which was an euphemistic way of saying > "Whites only". > > One day it happened that a party of Brits wanted to > dine at one such restaurant. Amongst their party was > a young lad married to a beautiful UK born Indian, > who for all purposes you couldn't really tell was > Indian except for that day she had worn a sari. > They were told at the doorway, that the girl could > not be admitted in.The entire group left in > disgust. > > The members/patrons of such establishments can chose > one out of two inferences depending on their > respective actions. > > a) I concur with the rules of this establishment and > will continue to patronise it or be a member of it, > because I too believe that discrimination and > segregation is valid in life. > > b) I will not be a member of this establishment > because I have serious issues with the rules and the > ideology behind those rules. > > You can't jolly well say, the rules don't apply to > me because I'm not the one being discriminated > against. > > Comprendez? Now, about that antacid, do you still > want me to send you some :)) > Mario responds: > No entiende. And I will only need antacids when my logic and facts are challenged, which don't seem to be in any jeopardy just yet:-)) > As has now become typical, in your unseemly eagerness to be RIGHT [even though you are waaaay LEFT] you continue to use irrelevent absurdity as a substitute for relevent common sense. > To begin with, the topic was not discrimination, but rock solid tenets of personal behavior. Yet you use an example of racial discrimination to try and make your case. > Tenets of personal behavior means that strictures against homosexuality apply to homosexuals, and strictures against women having abortions apply to women [perhaps you have missed the extreme feminist position that this is a woman's prerogative, and her's alone], whereas strictures against murder and racial discrimination apply to everyone. > Now take that antacid before you risk any further flights into fantasy land:-)) >
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