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rahl---i should have made a separation. the attempt to insert conservative-speak over this debate is an attempt to control the debate itself. that i see no reason not to simply laugh at. conservative-speak isn't in a position to set the terms, particularly not when the action in question is directed against one of the talking heads who helps articulate conservative-speak.
my personal view of reverse racism is that it's utter nonsense. i'm not interested in going through this argument again here, not only because it's been done to death, but even more because doing it would basically hand conservative-speak what it's usage in this context is after---it would situate it as a necessary frame of reference.
it isn't.
it's an arbitrary frame of reference hodge-podged together that really functions to link petit bourgeois resentment in the contemporary period back to the reconstruction period. same idea, different register.
so no, i'm not arguing with you over this point.
you or anyone else.
that's the end of that.
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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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