I'm a great fan of the Namiki Vanishing Point fountain pen myself. I find that the convenience of the retractability means that I use it more often.
But the real reason I'm commenting here is for want of a better way to reply to your comment over in ap_racism. I didn't want you to think that I'd ignored your comment, but I can't respond to you there because I've been removed from the community, which you might take as a sign that I'm impenetrably committed to my White privilege.
To feel that prejudice implies antipathy is to warp the standard definition of the word.
Eh? Gordon Allport's well-known definition from The Nature of Prejudice is Prejudice is an antipathy based on faulty and inflexible generalization. It may be felt or expressed. It may be directed toward a group or an individual of that group. In my experience, that's how the word is commonly understood. So I'm puzzled. What do you regard as the standard definition of the word?
You imply that benign people can't be prejudiced/racist, and that is very, very far from the truth.
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But the real reason I'm commenting here is for want of a better way to reply to your comment over in ap_racism. I didn't want you to think that I'd ignored your comment, but I can't respond to you there because I've been removed from the community, which you might take as a sign that I'm impenetrably committed to my White privilege.
To feel that prejudice implies antipathy is to warp the standard definition of the word.
Eh? Gordon Allport's well-known definition from The Nature of Prejudice is Prejudice is an antipathy based on faulty and inflexible generalization. It may be felt or expressed. It may be directed toward a group or an individual of that group.
In my experience, that's how the word is commonly understood. So I'm puzzled. What do you regard as the standard definition of the word?
You imply that benign people can't be prejudiced/racist, and that is very, very far from the truth. ( ... )
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