You don't need to apologize for having an opinion, but thank you anyhow.
I'd like to point out that I am NOT and never was an anthropology major. I probably misused the term from your viewpoint, and I will admit to not having been happy with it from my own, but I couldn't think of the word I wanted, so there you go. My point was to say that one person is thinking in very different, non-historical and more emotional, cultural terms (and I don't mean historically cultural, but rather, what was acceptable within their own system, whether it included castes, slavery, etc), and velvetpage seemed to be responding from a very logical, very technical POV.
Now, that doesn't give anyone the right to be insulting, but did the person come out and call her a racist? I haven't read the post yet, so I can't say. Did they assume they knew all that she did about the history of slavery across several historical periods and had read her correctly? Quite possibly, and that was erroneous. It would, however, be equally incorrect of us to assume that they called her racist or felt she thought one way or another about the matter at all without asking them for clarification on the matter.
I didn't mean to raise your hackles about anthropology by using it in place of the word I couldn't remember, but it was close to what I was trying to say and I assumed the gist would be perceived by the other things surrounding it.
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Date: 2005-11-25 04:32 am (UTC)I'd like to point out that I am NOT and never was an anthropology major. I probably misused the term from your viewpoint, and I will admit to not having been happy with it from my own, but I couldn't think of the word I wanted, so there you go. My point was to say that one person is thinking in very different, non-historical and more emotional, cultural terms (and I don't mean historically cultural, but rather, what was acceptable within their own system, whether it included castes, slavery, etc), and
Now, that doesn't give anyone the right to be insulting, but did the person come out and call her a racist? I haven't read the post yet, so I can't say. Did they assume they knew all that she did about the history of slavery across several historical periods and had read her correctly? Quite possibly, and that was erroneous. It would, however, be equally incorrect of us to assume that they called her racist or felt she thought one way or another about the matter at all without asking them for clarification on the matter.
I didn't mean to raise your hackles about anthropology by using it in place of the word I couldn't remember, but it was close to what I was trying to say and I assumed the gist would be perceived by the other things surrounding it.
Assumptions are terrible, aren't they?