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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (735430)	8/28/2013 11:34:16 PM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578501

>I don't know how your friend feels about dogs, but if he got one and walked it around the park, he'll see people's prejudices about him evaporate. >Just a thought. Wow. Talk about a non sequitur. I haven't a clue what your point is. -Z

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (735430)	8/29/2013 1:51:12 AM
From: bentway	Respond to of 1578501

"I don't know how your friend feels about dogs, but if he got one and walked it around the park, he'll see people's prejudices about him evaporate." Ten, the people that see you walking YOUR dog just assume you're gay. Not that there's anything WRONG with that - no prejudice expressed!

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (735430)	8/29/2013 2:30:38 PM
From: one_less	Respond to of 1578501

What does it have to do with walking a dog? When people focus on differences we feel by not belonging to a particular subset of culture, it is bound to cause discomfort. The discomfort can rise to down-right disdain when people get in each other’s face and force not only acknowledgement of the difference but blame one another for their feelings of discomfort. It is somewhat incompatible to like a dog and not the person associated with the dog. The things we enjoy and value in common deflate differences that might otherwise be noticeable and offer a sense of acceptance in shared experience. This is true of nearly every human artifact of modern life as it impacts human socialization. Our feelings about things are not really that complex. The popular music of the fifties did way more to advance the civil rights movement than aggressive protests did. One day we looked around and there they were, white kids swaying and grooving in the bleachers next to black kids doing the same thing to the same music. We are modern people, who have a great deal in common. There is nothing genetic which makes us enjoy some of our cultural artifacts more or less because of race. So, why do we see white liberals on this thread continuing to focus attention to the worst characteristics of things found in thug culture and elevate them to being acceptable “black culture” and labeling whites who won’t endorse such things as racists? Thug culture in particular holds to belligerence, misogyny and rebellion against any accepted norms and authority – all of these are embraced. If you’re black and you own a business, or wear a suit and hold a job in corporate America, you’re a sellout; yet black multimillionaire entertainers are able to talk the country and capitalism down, and not one among them even recognizes the hypocrisy therein. As with most liberal-socialist logic, the inconsistency of this view knows no bounds, and heaven help the individual who condemns the thug lifestyle as morally ambivalent. Such assertions are (according to the arbiters of racial orthodoxy) tantamount to denying black people their culture, and as such, are racist. Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2012/04/why-liberals-foster-a-black-thug-culture/#rPWbkblPEV2yiOob.99