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Originally Posted by pan6467
I agree. I am just at a loss how one can so blatantly keep talking about helping all poor people, yet continue about how we need to give only a certain people reparations.
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No one's said anything of the sort in this thread. If you want to bring it up again, I''ll fill up another page.
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Originally Posted by JumpinJesus
I was quite poor. the place I lived in actually had holes in the floor that allowed us to see into the apartment below us. In the winter, it would actually snow inside the apartment because the place was so poorly sealed and insulated.
But that wasn't in Chicago's west side. My days there were spent merely as a teacher.
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You were poor, so you likely have at least some understanding of the state of being poor.
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Originally Posted by JumpinJesus
We do agree here. Of course, I'd probably be more petulant and less condescending in how I worded it, but we write what we know, from what I've heard.
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Yeah, it's a bad habit that condescension thing. It's probably rooted in intellectual vanity, but more often than not here it's my way of walking the line in order to respond in kind.
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Originally Posted by JumpinJesus
Just to be clear, this comment:
is based upon general statistical knowledge?
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Not even a little. I'd already formed my conclusions based on the evidence, but my arguments were being ignored. I really posted it on the off chance he might actually try it.