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I guess it doesn't really matter to the discussion at hand.
Regarding Otto's video, what I think we're seeing is pure and simple irony because I've done the same thing myself. Imagine if, during a political debate about the Tea Party, I used the phrase "don't tread on me". Would you think I was honestly using that phrase, or would you think I was making fun of the Tea Party? I ask this because the people who showed up to protest the Koch brothers at that meeting down south are people very much like myself, people who are not okay with the Koch brothers influencing the science debate in the media and bankrolling the astroturf Tea Party. Do you think people who fundamentally oppose the Tea Party would, without any humor or irony, talk about making a black man go work the fields? What is the most likely explanation for that, unabashed racism or making fun? I believe it's making fun.
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