What he said.

At 09:05 PM 8/13/98 EDT, you wrote:
> I don't defend or endorse Michael Hering's very unfortunate remark.
>However, I find Peter Vreeland's response, "We don't tolerate your kind
>of thinking to exist..." equally chilling. If there's one thing scarier
>than racism, it's thought police. Oh, it was meant to be humorous? I
>suppose there's no chance Hering's flippant remark was meant as a joke,
>however distasteful or ill-considered? Nahh, some people can determine
>who is an "angry" (he didn't appear angry to me, but Jackie certainly
>did) "little racist" on the basis of 3 lines of e-mail. I'd ask Mr.
>Hering to apologize to the list members for an inappropriate, offensive
>remark, but I think it's going too far to brand him a racist. Many
>non-racists have made racially offensive and insensitive remarks through
>miscalculation, accident, Freudian slip, etc. Let's try to be tolerant.
>     But if there's one thing I won't tolerate, Mr. Vreeland, it's the
>failure to use "you're" and "your" correctly... Lighten up, folks. A
>temporary fit of jerkiness doesn't equal racism.
>
>David Haberstich
>
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