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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (259484)	8/30/2014 1:54:42 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 541955

Ok. So for the people who were made afraid by the Watts riots, the language worked. But it's not like an atomic weapon- it doesn't get everyone. It reaches people who are already that way. Just like liberal stuff (for example, seeing racism in everything and everywhere) also only reaches people already convinced. I don't think any of this stuff gets to people who aren't already in the choir- because a lot of it is just crazy. Not that there aren't a lot of nuts out there, of all kinds, but just try converting a nut. It doesn't work very well. Most nuts are pretty die hard. And it's not like NOT using that language is going to make people not racist,