As hopefully my last post on this non-Auto-X subject let me say that I
consider all the posts I have read to be sensitive and well thought out. I
have not taken anything you guys have said as an insult to my religion. I
just wanted to point out that the term "Safety Nazi" is best avoided.
Your friend,
Alan
On Tuesday, August 31, 1999 1:54 PM, Rocky Entriken [SMTP:rocky@tri.net]
wrote:
> I, too, wondered why the term safety nazi would be offensive. I've heard
it
> many times as a poke-in-fun at the "cop" (which a safety steward
necessarily
> must be in a sense), especially for the overzealous one.
>
> Then it hit me ... what if the safety steward himself was Jewish? Now
> suddenly it is heard with a much darker meaning, quite unintended but
there
> nevertheless.
>
> I'm sure the genesis has to do with such innocuous things as the term
"soup
> nazi" on "Seinfeld" -- how ridiculous a pairing of words, which of course
> was the comedic point.
>
> I tend to dislike all this PC crap ... titling someone "chairman" is not
> IMHO demeaning to women ... but when you get to something
> racially/politically/religiously sensitive, there really is no need for
the
> needless emotional injury.
>
> I've used the term, meaning nothing more than jest or wisecrack. I hope I
> can succeed in avodiding it in the future.
>
> --Rocky
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