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Originally Posted by Tully Mars
Well whatever you did or tried to do you never answered my question... still haven't.
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As a child I watched a cartoon called Casper the Friendly Ghost. Casper was a ghost who carried the baggage of ghosts being scary. As the title suggests Casper was a friendly ghost and meant no one any harm. He often befriended a character who carried no irrational fear of ghosts. His sort-term friendships often got interrupted when another character with an irrational fear would "freak-out". Casper had three uncles who often used Capser's attempts to befriend people to scare the sh*t out of those people for fun. Casper ahd a responsibility to deal with his plight, and he did the best he could, but he understood that he had a responsibility.
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Originally Posted by roachboy
i go through the exercise ace because your "arguments" are ridiculous.
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An open and honest dialog can help end irrational fear. In your mind that is ridiculous.
People having irrational fears. In your mind that is ridiculous.
A person may possibly not know that their fear is irrational. In your mind that is ridiculous.
People in this country have a irrational fear of Muslim. In your mind that is ridiculous.
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O.k., I understand your position. We disagree. Now what?
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Originally Posted by roachboy
clarification: when i use the word "legitimate" i don't mean "good" in the sense of "yay racism." what i mean is that there's something worth taking seriously that shapes racist positions. i reject the idea that there is anything worth taking seriously about racism.
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In my opinion your approach fails.
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i like hate crime legislation in the european style to address racist speech. but such law would shut down alot of tea party organizations, now wouldn't it.
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Make it illegal and that will stop it???Make racism illegal and people will stop being racists???Make it illegal for people to say something that may be racist and that will stop racist comments? Make irrational fear illegal, and people will stop having irrational fear? Is this your line of thought on this subject?