Re: Amerikans

["Macdonald Stainsby" <mstainsby@xxxxxxxxxx>]

If you would both please never use the word "refrain", I'd sleep
better.

Macdonald

> >Could Yoshie Furuhashi please refrain, hereafter, from using the
word
> >"Amerikans"? Such use of clever but essentially racist epithets may
make
> >us even more prone to revivalism, survivalism, primitivism.
>
> I don't mind refraining from spelling Amerika with a k, but keep in
> your mind that it's a homage to Kafka's unfinished novel _Amerika_
> (and Mark Amerika's _The Kafka Chronicles_).  BTW, I'd like you also
> to refrain from a casual & impertinent use of the term racism, which
> makes it useless politically.
>
> Yoshie