Re: [sqr-users] Re: Knowledge Transfer and naive PC do-gooders

["David Thorburn" <thorburn@conl.net>]

Wes,

I apologize.

It was Steve Alexander who should
have been called a 'PC Wuss.'

I would have zero credibility if I didn't
apologize when a legitimate mistake
on my part was brought to my attention.

Steve you're a Politically Correct Wuss!

Wes, as far as I know, you're not.

Regards,

D.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Wes Williams" <wes@Princeton.EDU>
To: <sqr-users@sqrug.org>
Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 11:49 AM
Subject: RE: [sqr-users] Re: Knowledge Transfer and naive PC do-gooders


> Well hmm, you have me confused with someone else, if I were you I'd
> re-read the e-mails. I replied to a post with a link to a web site and
> nothing else.
> I guess you owe me an apology, but I bet I won't get one.
>
> Wes Williams
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Thorburn [mailto:thorburn@conl.net]
> Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 2:01 PM
> To: sqr-users@sqrug.org
> Subject: Re: [sqr-users] Re: Knowledge Transfer and naive PC do-gooders
>
> Wes,
>
> I am not a bigot.
>
> People have a right and duty to protect themselves and
> their families.  What kind of a marshmellow are you?
>
> You're are a Politically Correct "wuss" without even the
> ability to comprehend that your own job may be jeopardy.
>
> You cannot compare observation from another time with
> what is happening today.
>
> Our jobs are under attack by Greedy CEO's and foreign
> leeches.
>
> Econo-War 2003 is Here!
>
> Wake Up!
>
> D.
>
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> -----------------
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Wes Williams" <wes@Princeton.EDU>
> To: <sqr-users@sqrug.org>
> Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 10:15 AM
> Subject: RE: [sqr-users] Re: Knowledge Transfer and naive PC do-gooders
>
>
> > http://www.townhall.com/columnists/walterwilliams/ww20030917.shtml
> >
> > Wes Williams
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Alexander, Steve [mailto:Steve.Alexander@ci.sj.ca.us]
> > Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 1:07 PM
> > To: 'sqr-users@sqrug.org'
> > Subject: RE: [sqr-users] Re: Knowledge Transfer and naive PC
> do-gooders
> >
> > It's getting hard to resist this topic, even though I know this is the
> > wrong
> > forum for it.  We've all benefited personally and as a society from
> > international trade, including the international labor market.  Where
> > were
> > our high quality, low cost cars, computers, TVs, and clothes made?
> > Where do
> > we get our fresh produce in the winter?  We have a higher standard of
> > living
> > because we can shop the entire world.  It's hypocritical to complain
> > when
> > smart foreigners compete for our jobs.  The answer is to do our best,
> > and
> > one way to do so is to learn from each other on forums like this.
> I've
> > noticed that people with non-European names (who may be US citizens)
> > provide
> > as many answers as questions.
> >
> > The definition of "us" in the statement "They are taking jobs away
> from
> > us"
> > changes with each generation of bigot.  Originally, "us" was only the
> > English-Americans.  Later, "us" included northern Europeans but not
> > southern
> > Europeans nor eastern Europeans.  Irish-Americans were among the last
> > Europeans to be accepted in the "us" club.  In the 70s and 80s, most
> > people
> > let African-Americans and female-Americans join.  Each group faces the
> > same
> > discrimination as the last, in almost exactly the same words.  That's
> > what
> > discredits racism/sexism/xenophobia for me.  We're a better society
> for
> > having the Irish, the Italians, and now the Indians among us.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: EricRection@aol.com [mailto:EricRection@aol.com]
> > Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 9:22 AM
> > To: sqr-users@sqrug.org
> > Subject: Re: [sqr-users] Re: Knowledge Transfer and naive PC
> do-gooders
> >
> >
> > I don't think you can complain if work goes overseas, e.g. shifting
> > manufacturing to Mexico, or if foreign workers comes "over here", e.g.
> > Injuns coming to
> > the US. I believe in the free flow of all factors of production, of
> > which
> > labour is one.
> >
> > Anglo-saxons have a competitive advantage over Indians because our
> > communication skills are usually better: I've worked with Indian,
> > Russian
> > and Nigerian
> > DBAs whose accents were sometimes so impenetrable they were an unwise
> > choice
> >
> > (and one of the Indian guys got canned because his work was shit,
> too).
> > I
> > don't
> > have a problem with economic migrants if their work is good and it
> isn't
> > a
> > strain to talk to them, but my blood boils when the opposite is true.
> So
> > I
> > don't
> > object to all foreign labourers - I've worked in six countries so
> that's
> > me
> > you're talking about - but I often wish management knew a false
> economy
> > when
> > it
> > saw one, and that's how the problem can be solved.
> >
> > I'd love to go to the US to be a visa slave labourer (hey, you can
> piss
> > in
> > my
> > face too, so long as I can keep my mouth closed). Does this make me
> The
> > Enemy?
> >
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