[Callers] here it is - sorry

Aahz Maruch via Callers callers at lists.sharedweight.net
Mon Apr 4 08:36:40 PDT 2016


On Mon, Apr 04, 2016, Michael Fuerst via Callers wrote:
> Ron Blechner:
>>
>> 3. That perhaps the use of "gypsy" as a term isn't as bad as non-Roma
>> self-identitying as "dance gypsies". Roma wander because they are
>> persecuted or can't find work. When we talk about "dance gypsies"
>> beig wandering from place to place, we're comparing our having fun
>> traveling to various dances to the widespread persecution of an
>> ethnicity (the worst being the Holocaust).
> 
> Maybe you do.  No one else uses such bizarre logic. 

You happen to be wrong about that.  Any time you're tempted to use
"nobody" or "everyone" when talking about people, you're almost certainly
wrong.
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