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TLM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-17-08 02:03 PM Original message |
There is a difference between being racist, and using racism. |
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mrreowwr_kittty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-17-08 02:04 PM Response to Original message |
1. Exploiting racism is worse than being a racist, IMO. nt |
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ekwhite (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-17-08 03:36 PM Response to Reply #1 |
24. Yes it is much worse |
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QC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-17-08 02:06 PM Response to Original message |
2. The same is true about being a homophobe vs. using homophobia |
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TLM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-17-08 02:34 PM Response to Reply #2 |
6. Exactly.... i agree. At least with a real bigot you know where they stand. |
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QC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-17-08 03:31 PM Response to Reply #6 |
17. So that leaves us with two candidates willing to cater to bigots |
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TLM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-17-08 03:35 PM Response to Reply #17 |
23. Yeah McCain and Hillary.... |
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QC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-17-08 04:33 PM Response to Reply #23 |
31. Well, if we are going to include McCain, then we have three candidates |
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AtomicKitten (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-17-08 02:07 PM Response to Original message |
3. Race-baiting by a Democrat against another Democrat is unprecedented. |
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TLM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-17-08 02:38 PM Response to Reply #3 |
7. Not really.... using racism has been around a long time... |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-17-08 03:33 PM Response to Reply #3 |
21. It really isn't, if you go back a bit to people like Wallace |
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WeDidIt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-17-08 02:08 PM Response to Original message |
4. I disagree |
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TLM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-17-08 02:54 PM Response to Reply #4 |
9. That's like saying anybody who uses a gun is a soldier... |
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WeDidIt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-17-08 03:31 PM Response to Reply #9 |
19. Poor analogy |
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TLM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-17-08 03:45 PM Response to Reply #19 |
26. Nope... one just need to know those tendancies exist.... |
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WeDidIt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-17-08 05:18 PM Response to Reply #26 |
32. IF one had no racist tendencies whatsoever |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-17-08 02:19 PM Response to Original message |
5. I don't make distinctions when making political decisions. |
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TLM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-17-08 02:55 PM Response to Reply #5 |
10. Isn't a decision, be definition, a distinction? |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-17-08 02:43 PM Response to Original message |
8. Jim Crowbar - that's good. |
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TLM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-17-08 02:56 PM Response to Reply #8 |
12. Thanks.... i thought it was pretty clever.... |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-17-08 02:55 PM Response to Original message |
11. Racist is as racist does, as far as I'm concerned. |
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DemGa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-17-08 02:57 PM Response to Original message |
13. And there's a difference between actually using racism |
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TLM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-17-08 03:30 PM Response to Reply #13 |
16. You mean like trying to attack someone by associating them with their scary black pastor? |
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dchill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-17-08 03:01 PM Response to Original message |
14. Don't you think that racists "use racism?" |
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VotesForWomen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-17-08 03:16 PM Response to Original message |
15. so then her supporters are the racists, since they are susceptible to her 'race-baiting.' is that |
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TLM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-17-08 03:33 PM Response to Reply #15 |
22. When you feel like addressing what I actualy wrote.... |
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VotesForWomen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-17-08 03:57 PM Response to Reply #15 |
29. i did; you claim hillary is 'using' race. using it on who is the question. her 'racist' supporters i |
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Beacool (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-17-08 03:31 PM Response to Original message |
18. Racists fear???? |
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TLM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-17-08 03:56 PM Response to Reply #18 |
28. Sure it is racial that 9 out of 10 AA votes go to Obama.... |
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Beacool (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-17-08 04:05 PM Response to Reply #28 |
30. You started this post, not me. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-17-08 03:32 PM Response to Original message |
20. I don't care what she personally is -- that's her problem. |
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algol (85 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-17-08 03:37 PM Response to Original message |
25. It doesn't feel that way. |
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loyalsister (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-17-08 03:48 PM Response to Original message |
27. Many differences and subtlties |
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