Re: WRONG/RICE BURNER!

["Ron Buchalski" <rbuchals@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Whoa, we've been raided by the P.C. police!  ARRRRRGGGHHHHH!!!!!!

Lighten up, John!

- -rb

>
>Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 20:28:11 -0400 (EDT)
>From: JJINHART@domain.elided (John Hart)
>Subject: WRONG/RICE BURNER!
>
>     I guess the number of posts on the issue of tarted-up Japanese cars 
>reveals a level of emotion I've never seen on the digest.  I don't mean to 
>argue the specifics, or be politically correct, but there are two things 
>that need to be addressed: 1) BMW's are Bahn-burners, but there is no 
>racial stereotyping in saying that, is there.  Equating Japanese or even 
>Korean cars with rice is a derivation of negative comments about Japanese 
>motorcycles, and that in turn revealed long held stereotypes about Oriental 
>cultures.

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