[UA] Guilty!

[Jim Nicholson]

Oh, I did.  I read them when they were first posted, long ago.  I'm pretty
sure the intent was as I described (i.e. ironic).

That said, I used to think of the SCS guys as politically correct
urban-hiphop humanists ... an impression that was totally eroded by their
post-9/11 commentary.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: ua-admin at lists.uchicago.edu [mailto:ua-admin at lists.uchicago.edu]On
> Behalf Of Edward Parsons
> Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 4:48 PM
> To: ua at lists.uchicago.edu
> Subject: Re: [UA] Guilty!
>
>
> Rethinking, I suppose that his comments may just be Ironic, or a
> sampling of
> popular thought, but the tone of the them really got to me. I'm not sure
> why, read the whole article and see if you agree
>
>
>
> http://www.synistercreative.com/main/
>
> (near the bottom)
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Nicholson" <jnicholson at tucows.com>
> To: <ua at lists.uchicago.edu>
> Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 9:34 PM
> Subject: RE: [UA] Guilty!
>
>
> > Actually, I think in this specific case the comment was supposed to be
> > ironic, i.e. lamenting that the "Middle Eastern" gentlement were
> ostracized
> > and condemning the presumption of guilt.
> >
> > That said, there were some rather questionable posts on RPG.net
> by the SCS
> > staff in the wake of 9/11 that give me pause in spite of this.
> >
> > JN
> >
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: ua-admin at lists.uchicago.edu
> [mailto:ua-admin at lists.uchicago.edu]On
> > > Behalf Of Edward Parsons
> > > Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 4:32 PM
> > > To: ua at lists.uchicago.edu
> > > Subject: Re: [UA] Guilty!
> > >
> > >
> > > Technically, I'm correct, as he shows emnity to them based on the
> > > fact that
> > > they look middle eastern. He goes on to blame the muslims, but he
> dislikes
> > > these men for being middle eastern (though Arab is not entirely
> > > the correct
> > > term)
> > >
> > > "Three men, Middle Eastern by the look of them, approached us
> > > with horror in
> > > their eyes. Afraid for their lives, they looked around, eyes pleading
> for
> > > acceptance. They found none. There's still no guilty party,
> and for all
> we
> > > know this could have been Arabs, American Militia, the
> French, or Space
> > > Aliens. But the Muslims are guilty until proven innocent. Silent,
> > > they left
> > > the group. The war has begun."
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "T. McGrenery" <114360 at soas.ac.uk>
> > > To: <ua at lists.uchicago.edu>
> > > Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 12:12 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [UA] Guilty!
> > >
> > >
> > > > <<Synister creative (makers of Underworld and Last Exodus)
> > > posted an item
> > > > about their rememberance of September 11th, at the bottom of the
> linked
> > > > page. Its usual stuff, a bit of patriotism there, tears there
> etc...and
> > > has
> > > > an absolutely sickening anti-arab last paragraph...>>
> > > >
> > > > That's not just anti-Arab, that's anti-Islam.
> > > > You can get into legal trouble for stuff like that, if done
> repeatedly.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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