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To: i-node who wrote (721363)	6/15/2013 2:28:55 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579244

> It might be if that's what I meant. This is something I've pointed out to you time and again. Your racism is insidious. You may not be aware of it, just as many people who use the term (n-word) believes it is harmless. When one persistently uses race to discriminate among people and caricatures individuals with racial stereotypes, it furthers the cause of racism -- and far more effectively than overt (non-violent) racism, which is in the open and can be easily discounted by third parties. Where have I used race to discriminate? All I have done is point it out when it happens. How is that discrimination? In your case, you use racism in an effort to further your political views -- constantly. So, trying to characterize this incident as a mere "slip" is kind of ridiculous. It is endemic to your way of thinking about things. Everything is black or white, Hispanic or Asian, whatever. If someone criticizes Obama, they must be a racist. I have not said every criticism of Obama is racist nor have I made that claim every time someone criticizes him. HOWEVER, there has been an undercurrent of racism among wingers ever since he ran for president.......emails depicting watermelons on the WH lawn, photos of Michele and his children resembling gorillas, racist slurs made in private conversations that come to public light and slurs made in public as well; racist tweets; Obama hung in effigy off trees much like was done with blacks 100 years ago in the South; the guv of AZ sticking her ugly, old and gnarled finger in the face of the POTUS like he was a 'boy'..............and these are coming from mostly elected R politicians and not some extremist assholes from the Aryan brotherhood Your problem.........you've developed this elaborate bubble that insulates you from all the bad that the GOP is perpetrating in this country and allows you to play pretend. Your need for the bubble comes from wanting to maintain a lifestyle that works very well for you but not for everyone. Its old school and does not work for this country. What you don't get is that thought process is, itself, racist, and highly offensive to those of us who grew up with real, often overtly violent, racism all around us. It took years for the South to be cleansed of it, and it is a bit disgusting to see it hanging on in other parts of the country. The South is not cleansed of it. And that's your bubble speaking once again, making such a claim. This country is not cleansed of it. The election of Obama has made that very clear. For all your BS about growing up in the racist South, you seem to understand little about the concept. And just for the record, I have encountered racism and bigotry throughout my life and I did not grow up in the South. And anyone who claims that they never heard the word beaner or pretends that racism no longer exists in this country is so full of BS his back teeth are floating in it.