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offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2007-05-01 23:08 [#02078208]
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the one they put people with curly hair on?


 

offline goDel from ɐpʎǝx (Seychelles) on 2007-05-01 23:12 [#02078209]
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no that's ireland. i mean the one with the red people (all
the other colors were already taken). not the hair, the
skin. it's easy to confuse them, i know. but you want to
avoid irish people to get angry at all costs, so please keep
that in mind. red hair is ireland, red people that second
rate continent.


 

offline DeadEight from vancouver (Canada) on 2007-05-02 00:08 [#02078216]
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y'know people say shit like that on American talk radio
every day. maybe not necessarily as overtly offensive, but
perhaps no less dangerous for precisely that reason... ie:
it can be really painfully obvious that some mouthpiece is a
bigot, but it's not till he/she slips up and makes some
frivolous slip into no-no word land (which is pretty fucking
arbitrary, might i add) before anyone feels they can do
anything.

while i would freely admit that i probably shouldn't know
more about it than someone living in America, i've
experienced enough, firsthand and secondhand, to feel like
it's a big mistake to be dismissive of this sort of stuff as
the harmless babblings of some isolated idiot whom we're
just supposed to ignore.

that doesn't necessarily make the methods of someone like Al
Sharpton right. I agree that if you take Imus' apology to be
sincere, then in the long term interest of making things
better, you would think it would be worth
honouring/accepting that gesture. The point is that dialogue
is important, and at some point, people are going to have to
step from behind their megaphones and radio booths and
actually have a real conversation with one another.


 

offline darkpromenade from Australia on 2007-05-02 00:25 [#02078221]
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well put


 

offline goDel from ɐpʎǝx (Seychelles) on 2007-05-02 11:41 [#02078460]
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looking gewd, honey!


 


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