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>If you know the person for example? Maybe I've should have said, the "Black guy" on the corner. Anyways the specification of'"Turk" or "Black guy" or "Chinese", or "Old man" or "Red guy" is just to identify who we are talking about, not an act of discrimination. I do remember an incident on the train station in Hoorn (it was in the papers) where one of the NS staff was trying to catch a black guy who did not pay for the train trip. He said "Get over here, you black rat". I wondered why this is discrimination? He was not saying that every black person was a rat, rather that this individual was both black and a rat.

Yes, that is a clear example of discrimination. It was clear to me within a second. As a judge, I'd not hesitate.

>>>Well, I'm a fan of charles, though I tend more to agree more with max westerman. Unfortunately I not much of a book reader though: It blurs my mind to absorb just the viewpoint of one individual.
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>>This is a book with readable sections, not much longer than your epistles. :)
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>Hmmm, I did not find my epistals that long. I've produced much longer messages in the past, AFAIK.... But anyways, I'll try to make it shorter next time.

The shorter a reply is, the bigger the chance that it is read. But also, the simpler it is to react. And finally, at some point a thread must end, which will eventually never happen if texts are very long AND contain many strong opinions.