Bob wrote:

> Why should it make any difference that I use the same name I had
> repeatedly used on him in jest, and have to change it to Jean-Marc
> when angered, especially the term "Frog" WAS in the SATIRE subject
> of a quote made by an Irishman?

IMO, because Huw was right when he wrote:

>Sadly, agreed.  Discussing racist language is one thing, applying it in
>anger is completely diferent.

> Now to ALL you POST-denouncers of MY part (for having used the term
> Frog on Jean-Marc as I've used for years without malice, and in a
> thread in which Frog was one of the TERMS in JOKE SUBJECT):  where
> were YOU when Jean-Marc was calling me

<snip>

Nowhere, should have been there, sorry. Still, two wrongs don't make a
right.

> Well, Lee, Bjorn, Huw, and anyone else who hasn't spoken up and
> wish to address the above NOW?

See previous paragraph. This is not about persons, it's about civility. Of
course, that is in the eye of the beholder. I just don't like what I behold
these days.

Bjorn