Trying To Be Logical With People Who Want To Find A Race Issue








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Tell me again about how liberals are the ones "bringing race into it."





Obama sign causes stir in Redgranite
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A sign saying Hang in there Obama with the picture of a noose is causing controversy in the Waushara County town.












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Michael Z. Williamson You just did. There were similar signs about Bush, but no one suggested they were because he was white. You seem to be making an assumption here.
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Ashley Protagonist Holmes Be...cause... sometimes things mean different things when you apply them to different people?

You know history started before we were born, right?
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Ashley Protagonist Holmes And that lynchings weren't actually that long ago?
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Michael Z. Williamson Indeed. I went to a church that had readable gravestones from the 800s, and have my family history as far back. I know a little of history. And one side of my white family lynched the other side.
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Michael Z. Williamson So, certain jokes can't be made because of the President's skin color, but would be okay if he had a different skin color. This isn't bringing race into it. Got it.wink
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Ashley Protagonist Holmes So you're completely unaware of lynching as a tactic that was disproportionately used to terrorize black people. 

Okay I think I found the problem.
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Michael Z. Williamson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lynch_(jurist) really? Seems he was a white guy lynching white people. Didn't you mention history?





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Metatron Singletary Is this in a

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SWING STATE?
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Ashley Protagonist Holmes Denialism and skepticism aren't the same thing, broheim. You may have a deep-seated psychological need to try desperately to find any explanation but racism for why certain things happen, but sometimes it's racism and someday you are going to need to make your peace with that.

Well, I suppose /you/ won't. But it's a little harder for some people to live in your colorblind fantasyland.
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Ashley Protagonist Holmes Simultaneously the best and worst pun of the day.
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Michael Z. Williamson If it's acceptable to make the joke about a white president, and a vocal minority of Dems thought it was, then it's acceptable to make it


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