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“I’m agreeing with the uber conservatives in the room.”
Snappy, I think you’ve inhaled too much glitter
DH, we’ll have to agree to disagree on that one. I don’t believe there is any such thing as ‘racist comments.’ There are ‘prejudiced comments’ and ‘racist behavior.’
“Just saying it’s perfectly OK for this nutjob to use racist language because she acting otherwise irrationally is dumb.”
Sigh. Try re-reading my posts. I never said or implied that it was “OK” for the crazy racist lady to call Tyburg6 a “white piece of shit.” I was TRYING to point out that you should have recognized she was nuts and got the hell away from her, and not engaged in a cutting-off contest.
Just for the record: IT WAS WRONG FOR HER TO CALL YOU A WHITE PIECE OF SHIT.
I hope I’ve made myself clear.
The problem is that there are too many nutjobs out there with guns. They believe an appropriate response to a verbal, non-violent exchange is a gun.
I’m all for the NYPD’s policy of “shoot-to-kill” when someone has a gun that they are brandishing.
Oh and I also ‘HATE’ drivers:
– that don’t wear seat belts
– don’t buckle up their children in a car seat, saying ‘we’re only going a few blocks.’
Oh heavens. I’m agreeing with the uber conservatives in the room. I must be ill. MEDIC!!!
Snappy – Interesting point on prejudiced vs. racist. I generally disagreed with any definition of racism that suggests that it only goes one way. But these aren’t scientific terms and just trying to define them can lead to some pretty revealing dialogue. I haven’t heard prejudice and racism compared in exactly that way before.
I ‘HATE’ Drivers that:
– cut me off.
– don’t signal when changing lanes.
– when in bumper to bumper traffic on a highway, use the shoulder as their personal lane.
– don’t look in their blind spot when changing lanes.
– don’t know what an all way stop sign means.
– drive when intoxicated.
– are PLUSAs
Sorry – if a person is in irrational mode and their first instinct is to make racist comments – then that person is a racist.