Ah ha! You're one of us then. Good.
Mind you, I've never even been in the South, let alone known someone from there (at least closely).
Then you shouldn't presume to educate Southerners on our customs.
If someone were to use the term "damnyankee" in casual conversation, I wouldn't be offended in the slightest...although it would strike me as a bizarre anachronism
Yet you brought it up as offensive if it were used in an online discussion of the Civil War.
I wasn't speaking of Gibson, but rather posters on this thread.
But the topic of the thread is Mel Gibson's alleged hate speech, is it not?
I don't recall attempting to do so...
Yet you brought it up as offensive if it were used in an online discussion of the Civil War.
I have seen threads on FR in which the term is used in exactly that manner (as an insult). I was simply pointing out that I wouldn't be offended, regardless of the intent of the person using the term. If anything, I'd be amused.
I wasn't speaking of Gibson, but rather posters on this thread.
But the topic of the thread is Mel Gibson's alleged hate speech, is it not?
Regardless of how the thread started, in context I was not speaking of Gibson, but rather of the futility of trying to change someone else's mind in an online discussion. Gibson was entirely tangential to this point.