[lbo-talk] "pale male" ... question to new yorkers...

[ravi]

John Thornton wrote:
>>i am probably going to regret bringing this up, but is anyone else
>>irritated with this pale male business?
>
> Peoples delicate sensibilities get thrown out of whack when they see the 
> occasional half eaten carcass of a pigeon but they can walk by homeless 
> people unperturbed. <...>
> 

yeah, its quite like the hypocrisy of people protesting for one animal
(because its of passing interest to them) while slaughtering more than a
billion of them each year, isn't it?


> I also knew a NYer who thought that if you went someplace like OK or
> NM if you went outside of town an Indian might actually scalp you but
> that isn't related to the point I'm making.


yeah he's wrong. he doesn't have to go out of town to be afraid of
indians. there are a bunch of them right in town in flushing meadows and
astoria! but then again, i have met indians who think if they went into
town some white or black dude is going to beat them to pulp...

	--ravi