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Honus · #1 11-06-2003, 10:03 AM

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Originally posted by mikemover
Whatever...

I'm one of the most open-minded people you will ever know (or at least e-know) when it comes to many, many things...unless I know someone or something is wrong.

Being open-minded to what you know to be wrong is NOT open-minded. It's stupid.

Mike

mikemover, often wrong, never in doubt.

GermanStar · #2 11-06-2003, 10:11 AM

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Originally posted by Botnst
I guess I failed to generalize properly. What I was trying to get at was a lawyerly argument (shouldda stayed with botany, huh?). My attempted point was that often what seems like a good, rigid rule is easily swayed by perceptions.

Don't feel bad -- I did catch your point. But ultimately, I saw it as an opportunity to further my point. In any case I give up.

One final thought -- all of you Rush fans shouldn't get too worked up. The Oxycontin incident was brilliant and provided Rush with a wonderful opportunity. Once he's out of rehab, all will be forgiven (he didn't mean to say it anyway -- he was on drugs) -- he'll be inundated with job opportunities and probably even a $10 million book offer. In the final analysis, this might be the best thing that could have happened to him. The only way Rush doesn't come back stronger than ever is if he decides that he doesn't want to.

Ron
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Zeitgeist · #3 11-06-2003, 10:16 AM

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mikemover, often wrong, never in doubt.

...he he he he...

quack! quack!

mikemover · #4 11-06-2003, 10:31 AM

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Originally posted by GermanStar
all of you Rush fans shouldn't get too worked up. The Oxycontin incident was brilliant and provided Rush with a wonderful opportunity. Once he's out of rehab, all will be forgiven (he didn't mean to say it anyway -- he was on drugs) -- he'll be inundated with job opportunities and probably even a $10 million book offer. In the final analysis, this might be the best thing that could have happened to him. The only way Rush doesn't come back stronger than ever is if he decides that he doesn't want to.

Probably true.

I never said I was that big of a Rush fan...I'm just irritated that a statement made by him (whether you agree with it or not is irrelevant) has been labeled as racist when it clearly was not. And this happened because of who he is, and for no other reason. It was an opportunity for the race-baiters to shoot down someone they wanted to see shot down, and nothing more. If Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton had made the same comment, it would have been taken at face value. But since someone like Rush made it, it MUST be racist.

I call bull$h!t.

Mike

That Guy · #5 11-06-2003, 03:30 PM

I was sitting there Sunday morning watching the pregame show and didn't think twice about it. Certainly wasn't the first time somebody said McNabb was overrated. Looking at what was said objectively, it was an attack on the press. I think the backlash was opportunistic. To be honest, I didn't know what the hell Rush was doing on the show in the first place and am not sorry to see him go (guy seems like a blowhard). But what he said wasn't racist.

BTW, I think Mc Nabb isn't a great QB (I think he's always been around 50% completion percentage) but damn if he isn't a great football player (at least up until the injury).

Look at it this way Mike, as part of the majority, scrupulously avoiding the appearance of racism, while the minority is allowed to do whatever is a small way of respecting the oppression and slavery that the minority's ancestors experienced. Is your life less fulfilling because you can't call your friends ni&&a?

Actually funny story: One conversation between myself and an Af-Am coworker/friend, I asked him if he knew what I always wanted to be able to say. He said that he did. After asking how he thought he knew, he said cause its probably the same thing all my white friends want to say. When I asked well what is it then? He said, "It's ni&&a please isn't it?" he was right.