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Originally Posted by RetroGunslinger
If high school has taught me anything, it's how the majority of certain races [in my very limited geographic area and similar socioeconomic status] act, at least in the teenage years.
I've seen maybe five white girls in loud fights over bullshit in the halls [Note: I've never actually studied this, and "maybe five" is a figure I am estimating based purely on anecdotal experience and fallible human memory], but I've seen innumerable numbers of black girls[Note: I don't actually mean innumerable, because there aren't even an "innumerable" number of people in the world. Furthermore, I've expressed it as hyperbole because I don't actually know the number, and am representing an estimation based on my pre-concieved perception, rather than hard data]. And further, being a peer mediator at my school, I've noted that 9/10 cases[NOTE: This is not actually 9 out of 10 cases, but merely an attempt at "statistical" representation of my feelings] I and others [NOTE: Not "others" in a statistical sense, but my 'peer group' validates my opinion of this] handle are black girls mad at each other for stupid reasons [NOTE: "Stupid" is my perception of the situation, and not actually based on objective criteria], and the only time I've ever not come to a satisfying conclusion between subjects has been with a group of black girls.
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I'm by no means a racist, if that's what you were implying, simply going by experience.
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If "high school has taught you anything" its that you can validate your assumptions about an entire race of people based on anecdotal experience with a half dozen teenage women in similar geographic and socioeconomic locations as yourself. Your conclusion is equally invalid as if you'd said the same about how "white girls" always act the same.
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Last edited by Jinn; 05-15-2008 at 10:18 AM..
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