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Originally Posted by David Marseilles
How many times do I have to explain that I didn't insult kindle and apple users? They're both wonderful groups of people. The small subgroups that attack rabidly everyone else rabidly for casually mentioning ways to improve a kindle or apple device are not. The thread and the names are directed at no one at Mobileread.
Whereas you are attacking and insulting, directly and rudely, a fellow mobileread member. I agree, that type of attack has no place here.
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KJK is right. You are insulting other members. Specifically, you are singling people out based on their choice of e-reader/electronic device and stating that people in this group aren't as discerning as people in other groups.
While it is, of course, not nearly as offensive as racism, it uses the exact same stereotypes and categorization. I.e., "Isn't it amazing how stupid people of [race] are?"
"Hey, I'm [race]."
"I'm not talking about you. You're very smart. But there are so many dumb people in [race]. But not you. Just generally. I mean, no one can deny that people of [race] are dumber than people of other races."
And of course the whole topic of this thread has managed to be insulting to two groups. "Are people of [race2] going to be as stupid as people of [race1]."
Again, this is not real racism. But pretending that a term like "iSheep" isn't at least mildly insulting to all apple users is being willfully blind.