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To: Alan Smithee who wrote (87112)	11/19/2004 12:33:21 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793690

What is so hard to comprehend about this Karen? I understand what you said. I understand that POV. I could have written the arguments for that position myself before anyone posted them. It's an instinctive reaction. I had to get past the same instinct when I first looked at it. I didn't just fall off a turnip truck. I've been through the civil rights movement. Was active in it, actually. So I won't be disabused of my POV by repetition of your POv, an alternative POV with which I was already familiar. What I haven't yet seen nor do I expect to see is anything that refutes my arguments. The big, flappy lips were not on the Bush character, they were on the Rice character, who happens to be black. That's true, but you're inferring a cause and effect relationship where there are other just as plausible explanations. There are too many variables to knee-jerk on racism. The double standard imposed by the left is simply incredible. I can't argue with that and I haven't. But it's neither here nor there. It does nothing to inform us about what defines racist. It only says that people are influenced in their opinions based on whose ox is being gored. That's sad, but not relevant to whether or not this is racist, only to whether or not there's politically bias in how it's viewed. Exempting blacks from caricature is no different from giving them an extra 150 points in college admissions. In either case you're giving them a break just because they're black. I have a framed caricature of me that was a going away gift from my Pentagon job. Like Rice, I have no outlandish features. But the artist managed to find some anyway. <g>