I now think I should have known better when I started this thread, but actually I didn't and no thread is the property of the first poster. So I can't really complain of what you have made of this. I can only be glad that some have understood.

If I had wanted to make a remark about the present disaster and the reaction to it I wouldn't have started an extra thread. M.Ted is far off the mark.

If I had wanted to comment about racism or not in the USA I wouldn't have started with an example from German TV language.

For me, it was about (hidden) prejudices possibly influencing the language one uses. That includes me, BTW. The pictures were just the most recent example I stumbled upon. Of course, that is close to nothing in comparison to what else has happened in NO and I'm the first to agree that whoever would give me a drink and would save me from drowning could call me any name he liked.

It was just two completely different themes for me and all the wholists who think one cannot discuss language separately from a disaster are just not at the same wavelength with me. I sometimes even start a music thread on the same day a disaaster happens.

Wolfgang