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Dee8go · #16 01-08-2008, 01:00 PM

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Originally Posted by TwitchKitty

I lived in the north and in the south while growing up. I saw racism but not like the popular press portrays it.

If you drive up to someone and shoot them because of the color of their skin, it is racist. If you drive up to someone and give them $100 because of the color of their skin, it is just as racist, maybe not as hateful.

Racism has become a profitable industry in the US. Like all profitable industries in the US, it is corrupted.

That is exactly the point I was trying to make. Your illustration was a good one.

John Doe · #17 01-08-2008, 01:33 PM

If we get rid of profit and business, the world would become a better place. With all the spare time we will have on our hands following the collapse of, well, everything, we can all self-smart ourselves reading economic (as opposed to political) history and grow into a nation of broke, social retards.

Google it. I'm right.

Botnst · #18 01-08-2008, 01:40 PM

Everybody else is a racist.

Brian Carlton · #19 01-08-2008, 01:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Botnst

Everybody else is a racist.

see post 12.

Dee8go · #20 01-08-2008, 01:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Botnst

Everybody else is a racist.

We're all racists. You're a cracker . . . .

Hatterasguy · #21 01-08-2008, 01:54 PM

Racist? Yeah a ton of people I know, but we all are to a certain extent.

The most overt ones I know are the old wasp's, they really don't like black people, or well anyone not like them...

I used to work on/fish off a very nice custom sportfish, the owner is a cool guy but he fly's a 3X5 Stars and Bars off the hard top.

Matt L · #22 01-08-2008, 02:01 PM

A man once told me, with a straight face, that white people were created while blacks evolved from apes.

Brian Carlton · #23 01-08-2008, 02:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Matt L

A man once told me, with a straight face, that white people were created while blacks evolved from apes.

............just a touch of racism there..........

Hatterasguy · #24 01-08-2008, 02:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Matt L

A man once told me, with a straight face, that white people were created while blacks evolved from apes.

Oh yeah I have heard some good ones!

The classic I shall remember until the day I die:

I'm sitting on the back of a sportfish with this old German boat broker, very German. We start talking about WW2(one of my favorite subjects

) and he said with a straight face. "Adolf Hitler was a really great man, he did a lot of good for Germany and almost got rid of those Jews."

That was an experiance to say the least.

Botnst · #25 01-08-2008, 03:04 PM

Are all racists, bigots?

aklim · #26 01-08-2008, 04:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Hatterasguy

"Adolf Hitler was a really great man, he did a lot of good for Germany and almost got rid of those Jews."

You know, AH wasn't ALL bad. He did get Germany out of the mess it was in. Yes, he also caused some problems but lets not be so hasty to say that there was NOTHING good that AH did. I think it is right to say that he did some good. Just that it was outweighed by the bad.

Well, if I don't like Jews, isn't what he did one of his great things?

aklim · #27 01-08-2008, 04:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Trakehner

Do you know anyone who is racist?

In what way are they racist,

and do you say anything to them about it?.

Yes.

What do you mean? Aren't they racists because they don't like someone because of that person belonging to a certain race?

No. For 2 reasons:

1. Why bother? They won't be interested in what you are saying and all it will end up in is a shouting match.

2. Racism is a form of prejudice. A socially unacceptable form. However, aren't we all prejudiced in some way or other?

TwitchKitty · #28 01-08-2008, 05:07 PM

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Originally Posted by John Duh

If we get rid of profit and business, the world would become a better place. With all the spare time we will have on our hands following the collapse of, well, everything, we can all self-smart ourselves reading economic (as opposed to political) history and grow into a nation of broke, social retards.

Google it. I'm right.

John Duh, so what if we just got rid of the corruption? For one thing, people might not type really ignorant, off topic misquotes on Internet forums. And one more thing, Duh. John Duh.

aklim · #29 01-08-2008, 05:08 PM

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Originally Posted by John Doe

If we get rid of profit and business, the world would become a better place.

Didn't Marx and Engels also believe that?

Medmech · #30 01-08-2008, 05:56 PM

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