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How have you not thought through this? Black people must have been incredibly powerful in the Jim Crow-era south. It's not cool when people find it socially ac
by rortian 16y ago
How have you not thought through this? Black people must have been incredibly powerful in the Jim Crow-era south.
It's not cool when people find it socially acceptable to say something venomous about a group of people.
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- sesqu 16y agoNor is it cool when people find it socially unacceptable to say something venomous about a particular group of people. Tangentially, I just saw the Frontline document on healthcare reform yesterday. Lots of venom near that topic, but everyone who got their soundbytes in condemned a particular senator, who called the President a liar while he was attempting to describe how he saw the bill. It struck me as odd to just go and get shocked by that, when it would have been a great opportunity to seize a factoid and get to the bottom of things, thereby narrowing the gulf that fed the raw emotion.