On 1/26/2017 8:00 PM, Bruce wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Jan 2017 19:48:36 -1000, dsi1 > wrote:
>
>> On 1/26/2017 5:17 PM, Bruce wrote:
>>> On Thu, 26 Jan 2017 19:10:38 -0800 (PST), dsi1 >
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> What's insulting is someone saying that they don't ever scorch their rice when cooking. At best it's saying that Asians are incompetent at making rice, at worst, it's saying that scorched rice doesn't ever happen. This is arrogant as well as ignorant. I'm not insulting your Chinese friends - I'm poking fun at cultural ignorance. I'm not impressed that you have Chinese friends. So do I - you don't hear me bragging about it, do you?
>>>
>>> There are people who sometimes burn rice and there are those who
>>> don't. Trying to link that to race is racist and, no doubt, incorrect.
>>>
>>
>> Quit acting stupid. You know and I know that when somebody on this
>> newsgroup says they never heard/saw/did something, what they're really
>> saying that that something is a lie, does not exist, or is
>> inconsequential. That kind of arrogance is an attempt to reconcile the
>> fact that they're ignorant about this small cultural tidbit.
>
> Are we still talking about burnt rice?
>
> By the way, that was a very civilised post that I can reply to without
> reformatting it.
>

Civilized got nothing to do with it. I'm typing this using Thunderbird.
On my Chromebook or when I use a computer that's not my own, I have to
use Google Groups. What it comes down to is which computer I'm using at
the moment. I can post from any computer that has a web browser. If that
ain't civilized, I don't know what is.