Censors Trying to Ban Book About Teen Wizard (OT)

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 10126

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Susan McGee" <Schlobin at a...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Dai Evans" <dwe199 at s...> wrote:
> > There's a line in this article - 
> > "Our school is 91 percent minority."
> > I laughed out loud for several minutes when I read this.
> It is so dreary to read about anyone but white privileged men,
> isn't it? So pc, so multicultural....  

Susan, British English being different than American English, I 
thought maybe Dai just doesn't know that 'minority' means 'of color'.

If he was thinking that 'minority' means 'less than 50%', that would 
explain why he was amused at calling 91% a minority. [Except in 
certain contexts where one can say 'a majority of one' -- I've heard 
this anecdote about both Abraham Lincoln and JFK, a Cabinet meeting 
where the President asked the Secretaries to vote yes or no on some 
plan. They all voted against it, and the President said 
'19 No, 1 Yes, the Yes wins.']

Not all white men are privileged -- I see plenty of them looking 
strung out on Skid Row -- and I think the literary types prefer 
stories about the loser types.