[NU Sports] Slurs and other musical notations

[Dennis W. Brandt]

I took nothing personally, Jason.  The very fact that you feel you owe me an 
apology tells me your skin is more hypersensitive than realistic.  Yes, it 
is YOUR statement that smacked of elitism.  YOU were judging John.  YOU were 
calling him a racist.  YOU read words into what he wrote, words that were 
not there.  YOU appeared to be suffering from the currently acceptable form 
of bigotry known as political correctness.  If John DeGroat is a member of 
the Klan or is a Skinhead, he can go to hell, but I have read nothing here 
to indicate he falls into those categories.  I note one other responder says 
he blocks John's posts as many, I know, do mine.  One brags that he refuses 
to listen to conservative voices because he believes in "diversity," but 
that refers only to gender and ethnicity.  Opinion is another matter because 
he assumes those who disagree with him are morally bereft by definition. 
Those who disagree get  smeared in a manner Joe McCarthy would have 
applauded.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jason Singer" <jason at jasonsinger.com>
To: "Dennis W. Brandt" <tbng at comcast.net>; <nwu-sports at tssi.com>
Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 8:14 PM
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Slurs and other musical notations


> Wow! I have an opinion about John's posts and that makes me someone who
> doesn't know enough to make that judgment...and I'M the elitist? Okay. The
> remark was in defense of someone else on the board that you were 
> attacking.
> It was not an attack on you, but clearly you took it as such and for that 
> I
> apologize. I am an actor so I have certainly been accused of being
> hyper-sensitive most of my life. Don't mind that part at all. Elitist? No,
> not really. Disagreeing does not make one elitist. Suggesting that I have 
> no
> right to write a differing point of view (something I, BTW, did NOT 
> suggest
> in my remarks - John can and should write whatever he feels like), or that
> that somehow makes me elitist is kinda funny. Calling a mostly
> African-American inner-city struggling to find anything to economically 
> grab
> onto a "third-world country" is the very definition of an elitist comment,
> unless he didn't mean it that way. If he didn't mean that, he has had 
> ample
> time to clarify, just as most people do when they are misunderstood (and 
> as
> I have done above). So, I suggest he meant it exactly as a number of us 
> read
> it and hence I'll stick to the comment that his remarks were borderline
> elitist/racist. Mine, on the other hand, were not. Sorry if you think they
> were. Again, just telling you that Paul was not alone in reading into it 
> and
> that I take John's silence as affirmation that we are correct. No biggie.
> I'll still cheer standing next to you for the Cats and hoist a brew. I 
> don't
> take much of this too personally. It's not why we are here.
>
> Cheers!
>
> - jason
>
>
> On 1/2/09 4:59 PM, "Dennis W. Brandt" <tbng at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>>
>>> For the record, Dennis, Paul is not alone in seeing something tat in my
>>> eyes
>>> WAS there. Not by a little bit. I have just taken to ignoring such posts
>>> from John. But don't for a minute take my silence to mean I don't find a
>>> good portion of his posts incendiary, incredibly pessimistic,
>>> mean-spirited
>>> and oft-times borderline elitist and/or racist. I'm not saying he is any
>>> of
>>> those things, but 90% of his posts are.
>>>
>>> And I'm sure he feels not such great things about me either, which I
>>> assure
>>> you I have no problem living with. In fact, I take it as a compliment.
>>>
>>> Cheers!
>>>
>>> Jason Singer SP'86
>>>
>> If you find what John DeGroat has said on this board to be "incendiary,"
>> "mean-spirited" and "borderline elitist and/or racist," you don't know 
>> one
>> person who truly fits those terms.  I suggest that elitism and
>> hypersensitivity exists elsewhere here.
>>
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