[SOC] Purdie... said what?

[Charles Harpole]

Jeepers, Ian,
What in your msg could possibly raise such a charge?  I re read your message and find it wonderful news that the US President did something good.  The only thing I could find was the word dinkum, which the ignorant could construe as making a negative comment on a man of dark skin.  It is possible that there was an American slang "dink" but I am not sure if anyone remembers it was used in Vietnam to refer to the US Asian enemy.  Certainly, nothing on Google shows any dark skin person racist dimension for the whole word, "dinkum."  Actually if this guy Kurt thinks that word triggered something inside him, HE is the sick puppy.
 
In fact, the dictionary of slang says dinkum is a very positive Aussie usage.  
 
I really liked your trump saying u are one of the moderators.....hoo hoo boy, very good!
 
And quite sadly, your view on Americas divided people is so completely accurate.  America is sick and its people blind to the illness or just ready to blame "the others."  I do not see a way out of the hole they have dug and have predicted that Calif, NV, OR, WA will simply withdraw from the union someday and like-minded people will begin to migrate to "their" chosen areas and people ... dare I say it, like the PARTITION in India/Pakistan years ago.  The Northeast will leave, too and the dumb and barefoot in the middle (where I was born and grew up) will learn what a Third World country is like.
 
Partly because of their illiness, I moved out of my home in Fla and retired to Thailand permanently 10 yrs ago.  I am now happily HS0ZCW and minor DX to boot.  
 
I admire how u handled this sad incident.  sincere 73, Charly

Charles Harpole k4vud at hotmail.com 
 dinkum
 
 
 
 
 

> Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 16:33:20 +1100
> From: ianpurdie at integritynet.com.au
> To: soc at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [SOC] Purdie...
> 
> KD7JYK DM09 wrote:
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > I read through all the SOC posts awhile ago. Nobody else called him on it, 
> > but Mr. Purdie is obviously a racist... And the worst kind, because he 
> > probably thinks he's being very generous and benevolent towards black 
> > people.
> 
> Kurt,
> 
> I'll defend your right to an opinion. Even one partially right yet, 
> monstrously and offensively wrong in substance.
> 
> You know absolutely nothing of me nor my background. If you did you 
> wouldn't make such a grossly offensive comment.
> 
> > Brilliant, there's no room for that kind of mentality in Amateur Radio.
> 
> I agree 100%, as well as in any other area of human endeavour.
> 
> My only regret?
> 
> I proffered what I believe to have been a simple, sensible report of how 
> your President represented America with great distinction in Australia.
> 
> I didn't introduce politics into the conversation. Just a simple report 
> buoyed by how the United States bestowed great respect upon my prime and 
> country minister a few days earlier.
> 
> I guess none of which were reported on Fox News.
> 
> I bitterly regret what subsequently followed. Each of the naysayers tell 
> me more about what is currently wrong with America than was the case, 
> say 15 years ago. You are a bitterly divided nation, needlessly tearing 
> one another apart. The comments on your President who merely was working 
> hard to promote trade and American jobs prove that.
> 
> Some complained about the lack of a moderator and list admins. Guess 
> what? I'm one of them writing to you right now. I go back that far. If 
> I could remember the passwords in true SOC fashion.
> 
> Kurt, you are entitled to an opinion, even a very false and derogatory one.
> 
> I have also read through what I have written.
> 
> I find nothing for which I need apologise. Perhaps some uncomfortable 
> truths exposed for which I also do not apologise for one iota when I and 
> my country are personally attacked.
> 
> Not for the first time either. Nor likely the last time either. I'm an 
> Australian and I stand my ground. If I'm wrong I will humbly apologise. 
> I have nothing to apologise for on this occasion.
> 
> Kurt? Your post is right out of order for no other reason than it is 
> factually incorrect.
> 
> Please enjoy the rest of your day.
> 
> 
> Thanks! :) 72/73's
> 
> Ian C. Purdie
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