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Originally Posted by SuperFemme
yes, the smiley was original to the email but was in the form of a colon and right side parentheses. our forum translated that into the graphic version of the smiley face.
either way? the smiley face was there and intentional.
things like this ladys email make me want to scream, cry, punch something, or at the very least sit down with her and tell her how outrageous she is.
grrrrr.
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Oh, how I WISH I could meet this woman. She is the kind of person I love to meet and have a nice casual conversation with along the lines of the following:
Racist: "So, what do you do, Aj?"
Me: "Well, by day I'm a mild-mannered IT worker doing UNIX/Linux support of a version control system. By night, I'm in an accelerated M.S. program in bioinformatics."
Racist: "What's bioinformatics?"
Me: "It's using computer science problem-solving methods to deal with issues in biology, particularly things like gene sequencing, protein folding and population modeling. I'm not sure which one I want to do but I think protein folding."
Racist: "Oh? What do you mean?"
Me: "Well, right now we can determine what a gene codes for but we can't predict the shape of the protein except by brute force."
Racist: "So what kinds of things do you have to study?"
Me: "It's mostly calculus, statistics, genetics, organic chemistry and molecular biology."
Racist: "Oh."
Me: "So, about that 'blacks are less intelligent thing..."
Cheers
Aj