Re: Oracle DBA Job Opening in Boston

hpuxrac wrote:
> joel garry wrote:
> > Since there has been a great deal of abuse of certain visa programs,
> > having a simple negative reaction to them does not necessarily imply
> > either racism or economic illiteracy. It might be such, and sometimes
> > is. It certainly seems to elicit claims of racism from the mere
> > posting of the facts, very ironic if it the post was not intended to be
> > racist. I for one hate the abuse of the program, not the poor abused
> > people who have to live in fear of not being able to find another
> > sponsor. Unless they happen to start spamming me, because that is the
> > only sponsor they can find. I'm colorblind about hating spammers,
> > anyways. Does it make me racist if the majority of the spammers have
> > Indian-subcontinent style names?
>
> Well your last sentence certainly sounds like an insult even if it is
> not exactly straight forward to understand if you meant it as a racist
> slur or not.

Sorry folks (especially Anurag), I thought the "colorblind" in the penultimate sentence would make it clear that I did not intend it as a slur, but rather a statement of the curious skew of names in "employment" related spam I get. (And the names are often in the body of the mail, not just email addresses). I have no problem working with people from any part of the world. Unless they are nazis http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14121008/

jg

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