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Posted 2007-04-14, 08:25 AM in reply to Vollstrecker's post starting "Well, to be fair, it'll only become..."
I dunno. I don't know if it is possible. But it's true that even the most inocuous label can be used for ill. Just saying that a "black man" or a "hispanic" committed a crime instead of a "man" or a "woman" is just asking for uneasy people to build paranoia.

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Posted 2007-04-14, 11:40 AM in reply to RoboticSilence's post starting "I dunno. I don't know if it is..."
RoboticSilence said:
I dunno. I don't know if it is possible. But it's true that even the most inocuous label can be used for ill. Just saying that a "black man" or a "hispanic" committed a crime instead of a "man" or a "woman" is just asking for uneasy people to build paranoia.
Like I said, the problem won't really go away until the media stops making a big deal about it, and until most people are really exposed to other cultures in a realistic and positive light.

There was a quote somewhere in my English textbook that put it perfectly, although it was in relation to gays, it fits perfectly fine:
"The late wit and arch-queen Quentin Crisp referred to this truism, only half jokingly, as 'liberation through banalization.'"

Basically, only by making other cultures 'ordinary', can they truly be freed from oppression.
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Posted 2007-04-14, 11:44 PM in reply to Vollstrecker's post starting "Like I said, the problem won't really..."
Well, I didn't read any of this...

but we ought to exterminate everyone but me.
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Posted 2007-04-19, 10:31 PM in reply to Penny_Bags's post starting "Well, I didn't read any of this... ..."
http://youtube.com/watch?v=TbYvFbDlZaE
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Posted 2007-04-19, 11:26 PM in reply to Demosthenes's post starting "http://youtube.com/watch?v=TbYvFbDlZaE"
I for some reason have seen that before. His head is shiney.
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Posted 2007-04-20, 05:44 AM in reply to Sovereign's post starting "I for some reason have seen that..."
Must.... smoosh... white people...
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