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Due to today's culture of people having the right to be outraged at any comment I feel posts should now be less specific..
Don't mention the origin of said offenders.
Also don't mention the age
Or the sex
Or how many there were (we don't want to be derogatory toward 'groups' as opposed to pilgrims walking alone.. )
It's probably best we don't mention where it happened due to shedding a negative light on said location..
Let's just agree that something happened somewhere.. and Annie Santiago was slightly miffed but not in a way that in any way lessens the importance of any other miffed people in any location.
There, we can all be friends again now.. that's if everyone feels comfortable with being classed as a friend. I apologise for my friendliness if anyone is offended.
I agree AndyWild - but I wish to support AnieSantiago a bit here, in a friendly way: when we are tired and perhaps agitated by something, we all say and think things that are not as PC as they should be in a public forum. I'm forever correcting myself - my thoughts and opinions, not to judge others, the Big Man tells us to do this in his Book of James - which is why we're on Camino, to better ourselves, hopefully, overcome our grievances, challenges, learn, our sadness, etc. etc. Lets all cut AnnieSantiago some slack here (this comes from a sometimes very grumpy and world-weary old man). She lost a lot of sleep at the end of a long Camino - the basis of Annie's agitation would be a problem to most of us, its just the finger-pointing that could be a bit less indiscreet(?) I hate ethnic and social profiling, it happens to me all the time where I live, in both subtle and direct ways, and comes from people who do not know much except what the politicians and their tabloid chums preach to everyone on the news or in their comic-newspapers. And we come from an era which was loaded with the most despicable prejudices. Thank goodness we have progressed from those times, although many world politicians are doing their best to set us back to some very bad old times. There, that's my rant for the day done. No offence to anyone intended with this, just a little peace and understanding (you could write a song about that). LLN KeithDue to today's culture of people having the right to be outraged at any comment I feel posts should now be less specific..
Don't mention the origin of said offenders.
Also don't mention the age
Or the sex
Or how many there were (we don't want to be derogatory toward 'groups' as opposed to pilgrims walking alone.. )
It's probably best we don't mention where it happened due to shedding a negative light on said location..
Let's just agree that something happened somewhere.. and Annie Santiago was slightly miffed but not in a way that in any way lessens the importance of any other miffed people in any location.
There, we can all be friends again now.. that's if everyone feels comfortable with being classed as a friend. I apologise for my friendliness if anyone is offended.
I don't consider Annie to have done anything wrong.. she gave a few basic facts and in no way said that the reason for their behaviour was because of said facts.. I was just pointing out how bizarre a post would be if you weren't able to add any details relevant or not.. I'm all for people being outraged but it amuses me when people are outraged because they misinterpret a perfectly valid statement.. twisting it (intentionally or not) to suit one's outrage is becoming far too commonplace. Anyway let's change the subject, have you seen the price of raisins? Outrageous!!I agree AndyWild - but I wish to support AnieSantiago a bit here, in a friendly way: when we are tired and perhaps agitated by something, we all say and think things that are not as PC as they should be in a public forum. I'm forever correcting myself - my thoughts and opinions, not to judge others, the Big Man tells us to do this in his Book of James - which is why we're on Camino, to better ourselves, hopefully, overcome our grievances, challenges, learn, our sadness, etc. etc. Lets all cut AnnieSantiago some slack here (this comes from a sometimes very grumpy and world-weary old man). She lost a lot of sleep at the end of a long Camino - the basis of Annie's agitation would be a problem to most of us, its just the finger-pointing that could be a bit less indiscreet(?) I hate ethnic and social profiling, it happens to me all the time where I live, in both subtle and direct ways, and comes from people who do not know much except what the politicians and their tabloid chums preach to everyone on the news or in their comic-newspapers. And we come from an era which was loaded with the most despicable prejudices. Thank goodness we have progressed from those times, although many world politicians are doing their best to set us back to some very bad old times. There, that's my rant for the day done. No offence to anyone intended with this, just a little peace and understanding (you could write a song about that). LLN Keith
I’m an American.
I live in Portland, Oregon.
I have teenager grandchildren.
They were American teens.
The truth may hurt, but it is the truth.
I was ashamed of their behavior!
Andy, there you go again. Such good humour. I hope your mother is around to be able to smile widely at her wonderful son!Due to today's culture of people having the right to be outraged at any comment I feel posts should now be less specific..
Don't mention the origin of said offenders.
Also don't mention the age
Or the sex
Or how many there were (we don't want to be derogatory toward 'groups' as opposed to pilgrims walking alone.. )
It's probably best we don't mention where it happened due to shedding a negative light on said location..
Let's just agree that something happened somewhere.. and Annie Santiago was slightly miffed but not in a way that in any way lessens the importance of any other miffed people in any location.
There, we can all be friends again now.. that's if everyone feels comfortable with being classed as a friend. I apologise for my friendliness if anyone is offended.
The truth can come hard .Her nationality has nothing to do whether or not the title to the thread was offensive or not. With that logic you are saying it is okay to rant and insult an ethnic group as long as you are a member of that group? Flawed logic methinks or a poor attempt to excuse offensive behaviour.
Annie, are you sure they were not just gnomes dressed up like American teens (just to give us Americans a bad name?) Don't laugh, I've seen this happen before. . . . wait, I have to go, my meds are coming. . .
I think that when we travel, we are more upset by bad behaviour of our compatriots that we are by bad behaviour of others. Most nationalities have some characteristics that can be annoying or worse - and that includes Canadians as well as Americans. It isn't necessary to emphasis the nationality when we lament bad behaviour - it doesn't really help anyone.
Due to today's culture of people having the right to be outraged at any comment I feel posts should now be less specific..
Don't mention the origin of said offenders.
Also don't mention the age
Or the sex
Or how many there were (we don't want to be derogatory toward 'groups' as opposed to pilgrims walking alone.. )
It's probably best we don't mention where it happened due to shedding a negative light on said location..
Let's just agree that something happened somewhere.. and Annie Santiago was slightly miffed but not in a way that in any way lessens the importance of any other miffed people in any location.
There, we can all be friends again now.. that's if everyone feels comfortable with being classed as a friend. I apologise for my friendliness if anyone is offended.
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