Jim O
Careful with that axe...
What exactly is it Jamie? And who is fanning the flames? In my opinion it is vaughn with his "innocent obtuseness".jglass38 said:Wes, stop fanning the flames and trying to make it into something it isn't.
I watched half a football game and came back to all of this crap. If it's not patently obvious to vaughn and to everyone else that my meaning was that Oz's comment about someone named Capone being a gangster (misspelled or not) might offend people with Italian surnames (and ethnic Italians in general perhaps) then I don't know what I could have done to make that clearer. A person with a name that would imply a Middle Eastern ethnicity (irrespective of Oz's religious beliefs) who lives in the US in this day and age is no doubt subject to parallel thoughts and perhaps even occasional epithets. I'm not trying to be "politically correct", rather I am encourging a bit of sensitivity which I believed Oz's post lacked. Call Joe an arrogant SOB, which he is. But racial and ethnic stuff crosses the line for me. I was reminding Oz that he is living in a big glass house in that regard because of his name (again, no matter his religious preference) and he should be careful lest someone throw the "t" word in his face.

