Klarinet Archive - Posting 000737.txt from 2002/11

From: LeliaLoban@-----.com
Subj: [kl] Re Tony Pay's comments
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 23:59:25 -0500

Patricia Smith wrote,
>Though I don't know either of them, for some reason,
>I did know Tony's remarks were in humor. Perhaps it
>is because I have a bit more familiarity with that style
>of humor - I'm not sure. I just knew...

I thought the remark surely must be meant as humor, but I also thought it was
better to ask than to guess. I live in a multi-national Northern Virginia
neighborhood, near the Pentagon, just outside of Washington, D. C. My
husband works in a frequently-threatened, frequently-evacuated Federal
Government complex, two blocks from the White House. I could go on for many
off-topic pages of reasons why, like a lot of people who live around here, I
know it's dangerous to assume that someone who utters extremist-sounding,
anti-American remarks doesn't really mean anything by them. We're a mite
jumpy in this neighborhood.

However, I completely accept Tony's explanation and apology -- and, Patricia,
I like your sensible response much better than the smug, "Gotcha!" reaction
of one or two other people who seem over-eager to find fault with Tony and
who have made way too big a deal out of a minor incident, IMHO.

Lelia

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