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So we can agree that Maeve is crazy, then.

Well I can certainly agree with that.

...crazy, cotton-brained Maeve...

Is cotton brained better than being goldfish brained? That's usually how I refer to my brain. (after the bit in the Ani DiFranco song, Little Plastic Castles)

*snicker*

Mlb.com is streaming the debates in an attempt to get people to leave their TVs tuned to Fox for the baseball game.

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Originally posted by luckyfurtrapper:
Apathy if you mean that you could be a racist thru fear then i agree . I try to understand every angle first then lie in my understand second. Not understanding something and an unwillingness( if that's a word) to try is the birth of this disease. Unfortunely, people jump in at the hate\anger part and bypass the birth all together.

that's not what I meant, but, yes, I believe that people are often racist because they are afraid. my uncle, for instance, developed his prejudice after his best friend was killed in a hotel robbery. the attacker (who stabbed the best friend so many times that they couldn't count all the knife wounds) just happened to be black. is that fair grounds for distrusting an entire ethnic group? of course not, but the prejudice is generated by fear.

what I was trying to say is that most people in our society understand that you can't just come out and say that you're prejudiced against black people. no one wants to "look" like a racist, no matter what their actual beliefs are. so, rather than tell the truth"”that they fear Obama because he is black"”they paint him as a Muslim, which has somehow become an acceptable racial/religious prejudice in this country.

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Originally posted by Tongster:
It's not Muslim = terrorist, it's different = bad. This is just the latest iteration. As a Muslim friend said after watching Iron Man, "Man, now it's our turn in the barrel."

EDIT: For reasons other than typos.

nono, it's true! Obama is a half-breed Muslin.

(also, i'm not convinced the bad guys in Iron Man were coded "Muslim" so much as "Middle Eastern" - which is still problematic, just in a different way. i'm interested in arguments to the contrary.)