"Parse Tree" <parsetree at hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Shadow Dancer" <insomniac at winterslight.org> wrote in message
> news:ahiq14$tivr6$1 at ID-150265.news.dfncis.de...> > "Parse Tree" <parsetree at hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:T0%_8.7970$sb5.425448 at news20.bellglobal.com...> > > "Cary Kittrell" <cary at afone.as.arizona.edu> wrote in message
> > > news:ahhgoj$6i8$1 at oasis.ccit.arizona.edu...> > > > In article <3D390E51.8888A0FA at yahoo.com> Jet
<thatjetnospam at yahoo.com>
> > > writes:
> > > > <
> > > > <
> > > > <
> > > > <Thalamus wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I'm guessing he's just a kid -- isn't he exactly like a three year
> > > > old who has just learned "kaka" and goes around delightedly kaka-ing
> > > > everyone and everything ("kaka-head") he encounters? His "insults"
> lack
> > > any
> > > > semblence of style, originality, deftness, or wit. He's purely
> > > > of the THUNK! school of insult.
> > > >
> > > > I'm guessing thirteen. Do I hear twelve?
> > >
> > > Hey!! That's rather rude.
> > >
> >
> > No it isn't, not in Thalamus' case. It is likely the truth.
>> I do not like the implication that stupid = young.
>> Ageism of this sort is no different than calling someone 'nigger' or
'spic'.
> Actually, it's quite worse because it's associating an actual negative
> property, rather than simply a negative connotation.
Parse, if you stop to think on it, we were giving him the benefit of the
doubt, chalking up his attitude to a lack of maturity.
It would be far worse if he was an adult and acting like a child, in this
manner.
That's not to say that all those below the age of 18 act like complete
morons. While you're fond of joking, I must say you do an admirable job of
holding your own when serious.
The Shadow Dancer
