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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: epicure who wrote (21512)3/16/2003 2:25:05 AM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 25898
 
Well, you just can't please everybody. Guess you'll just have to dig out your Pepto. Hey, do you know what Mark Twain said about France? Nah, I don't think I better tell you.

Hey, I just thought of something else you said.

I wouldn't mock African Americans because they are heavily against the war, and I wouldn't mock them if they were heavily for the war

Now I figure you brought up blacks to imply I'm being racist about the French. But that aside, there's an assumption in your words above, that blacks are a group that are heavily against the war. Why would you think that?

The antiwar movement seems overwhelmingly white. Sure Jesse Jackson and Sharpton is publicly against the war. You'd expect them to be - they're gonna be against everything Bush is going to do. Of the Hollywood crowd who have sounded off against the war, Glover's the only black one.

About the targeting of groups for their differing opinions, what's your take on the Jewish conspiracy theory of the war which is popular with a good part of the antiwar movement> And unlike me about the French, they aren't joking.
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