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Old 10-31-2006, 04:14 PM   #29 (permalink)
Gilda
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Originally Posted by Moskie
look, these people are making fun of a retarded fashion trend. nothing more. if you interpret that as being racist, then you're fishing for an argument when there should be none.
When it's prefaced by a description that amounts to "dress like a poor black person", that's a problem, and is bound to exacerbate the already existing animosity in the area, which gives the school a good reason to discourage such behavior.

When you openly mock others, particularly those with whom there is preexisting hostility, you should expect that their getting upset is a foreseeable and reasonable consequence.
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