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Supporting the point that grey is racially assymertric (racist?):

Okay, here's the Brenner interpretation of the Comments in
the Grey Interpretation of the Fundamental
Standard of the university that Leland built. 

Grey doesn't just say "You're not
allowed to say anything racist",
because then a black guy who called a
white guy "white trash" really could
be brought up on Fun Stan charges.

But what they actually do say isn't as
clear as I remembered it.  Probably
I'm remembering one of the remarks
that Grey made to clarify his Comments
on the Interpretation, or some such.

Anyway, I think the key words are
"pervasive discrimination".  For a
particular remark to be prohibited, it
has to be understood as being one of
the standard epithets that everyone
knows is typically directed against
the standard oppressed groups.

Here's some quotes of the first three occurrences of the word
"pervasive".  
              
     Why then enumerate "sex, race, color, handicap,
     religion, sexual orientation, and national or ethnic
     origin" as specially prohibited bases for
     discrimination?  The reason is that, in this society at
     this time, these characteristics tend to make
     individuals the target of socially pervasive invidious
     discrimination. These characteristics thus tend to
     serve as the basis for cumulative discrimination:
     repetitive stigma, insult, and indignity on the basis
     of a fundamental personal trait.

     It is the cumulative and socially pervasive
     discrimination, often linked to violence, that
     distinguishes the intolerable injury of wounded
     identity caused by discriminatory harassment from the
     tolerable, and relatively randomly distributed, hurt of
     bruised feelings that result from single incidents of
     ordinary personally motivated name-calling, a form of
     hurt that we do not believe the Fundamental Standard
     protects against.

     Just as a single sexually coercive proposal can
     constitute prohibited sexual harassment, so can a
     single instance of vilification constitute prohibited
     discriminatory harassment. The reason for this is,
     again, the socially pervasive character of the
     prohibited forms of discrimination.
        
(the full text of Grey,  
look in the doomout file
under FULLGRAY.)                         
                                           
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