Big Caucasian Guy

After discovering a glitch in the site's contact setup, I found 171 e-mails piled up in the inbox.

I spent a couple of hours playing catch-up when I found one from my biggest local fan:

Caucasian is a racist term. The equivalent term to describe Chinese etc is Mongoloid.

The rest of your page is of course very Mongoloid! Mong Cock in fact.

His intention was to get a rise out of me, and he did, but not the way he expected: I'm not angry. In fact, I rather pity the old boy; mental illness isn't funny.

According to the Oxford English dictionary, there's not a thing wrong with Caucasian; the only footnote is that the word is "no longer in technical use". What else does he expect me to use? It's either that or white, because I'm not going to use terms such as Anglo, Aryan, Bubba, Casper, cracker, fish-belly, Frosty, gringo, hayseed, honky, paleface, peckerwood, snowflake, tornado bait, WASP, or Wonder Bread.

The dictionary did take exception with the term Caucasoid, which is the proper match of Mongoloid; both terms are considered archaic, potentially offensive, and thus best avoided.

But that didn't stop him from attempting to insult me in the following paragraph using the alternate definition of mongoloid, which is considered far more offensive, along with an incredibly lame pun the likes of which 12-year-olds concoct. Referring to the site as a "page" is mildly amusing in a 1996, AOL sort of way.

Did I mention the sender is also Caucasian?

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