From hliu at mindspring.com Sat Jun 5 19:53:26 1999
Nitpicking again.
I'm less nitpicking than you are backpeddling.
The point, since you seemed to have missed it, is that you're fond of making these outlandish, unfounded statements. When you're called on it, you say the details don't matter.
You're wrong: the details nail you as lazy everytime.
/jordan
Jordan Hayes wrote:
> From hliu at mindspring.com Fri Jun 4 21:25:16 1999
>
> Margaret wrote:
> >
> > Henry wrote:
> >
> > >In the Vietnam War, "I am going get me a Charlie" is a racist
> > >remark.
> >
> > I disagree, Henry. 'Charlie' was a shortened form of
> > 'Victor Charlie', they being the military-phonetic
> > codes for the letters V and C, which of course stood
> > for Viet Cong.
>
> You are technically accurate. Yet the term Charlie has
> followed the GIs back to America and many Vietnam refugees in
> this country, in Texas for example, were addessed with
> hostility as Charlie and they resent it bitterly.
>
> Then why didn't you say ``Today in Texas, "I am going to get me a
> Charlie" is a racist remark.'' ...?
>
> Sheesh.
>
> /jordan