Raj Feridun wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 09:14:09 +0900, Scott Reynolds <sar@gol.com>
> wrote:
>
> >On 11/25/2003 5:52 PM, Raj Feridun wrote:
> >
> >> For the umpteenth time I think painting ALL Japanese with a broad
> >> "uncaring" brush smacks of racism.
> >
> >If people were painting ALL Japanese with a broad and unflattering brush
> >you would perhaps be justified in making a charge of ethnocentrism. But
> >I still fail to see the racism. Are the Japanese a distinct race now?
>
> I was aware of this even as the word kept getting slung about even
> harder and harder in here. Yes, I want to back off from the whole
> RACISM thing anyway like I said. It was the snobby "our shit don't
> smell" tone of the posts that really pissed me off whether it was
> actually there or not. I read it in there.

Who in that post said their shit don't smell? They were talking about Japan.