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i'm sorry that happened to you, cyn.
i don't buy in any way, at any level, the idea that affirmative action is racist. you cannot arbitrarily detach present from past--you cannot wish away history---and the only way your argument holds is if you wish away history. go for it if you like--to each his own fantasy---but i don't buy it. the argument from this point is not interesting to me, mostly because the gist of it already happened early in the thread and you agreed with the statement there. so i assume this is a separate matter, and one that runs across the experience you outline. so we just disagree about this.
also, the hate crime law in the united states would not have obtained in iceland in any event, so i'm not sure i see the connection between that unfortunate incident and the context that shaped such laws in the states.
and we're having this discussion underneath an image of a stuffed effigy hanging from ropes, so it's all a bit surreal.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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