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GOP official apologizes for Obama chimp email

ReverendHellh0und said:
I think she's a 73 year old dingbat and I care about it as much as I care about Bidens "Articulate" comment, or hillary's indian comment, or Obama's "white people are typically racists comment...


idiotic but not indicicative of inherent racism of an entire party. :shrug:
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For clarification: Do you think people are misreading this person as badly as you are misreadng the Obama comment?
 
liblady said:
obama said white people are typically racist? i did not know that.
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No, he said his grandmother is a "typical white person" who has prejudices against other races. It was a gross generalization that showed HIS predjudice.
 
Mellie said:
No, he said his grandmother is a "typical white person" who has prejudices against other races. It was a gross generalization that showed HIS predjudice.
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actually, that's not what he said, is it?
 
Mellie said:
No, he said his grandmother is a "typical white person" who has prejudices against other races. It was a gross generalization that showed HIS predjudice.
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People of her generation, yeah thats a true statement. But please, don't take historical context into account, that would be intelligent.
 
Mellie said:
No, he said his grandmother is a "typical white person" who has prejudices against other races. It was a gross generalization that showed HIS predjudice.
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so are you saying that the "typical white person" (and by that I mean, a typical human being) doesn't develop, as Obama says, "a reaction that's been been bred into our experiences that don't go away and that sometimes come out in the wrong way" relative to race?
 
theplaydrive said:
so are you saying that the "typical white person" (and by that I mean, a typical human being) doesn't develop, as Obama says, "a reaction that's been been bred into our experiences that don't go away and that sometimes come out in the wrong way" relative to race?
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He didn't say "typical human being". He specified HER race.
 
Mellie said:
He didn't say "typical human being". He specified HER race.
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here's what he said:

“the point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn’t. But she is a typical white person who, you know, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn’t know, there is a reaction that has been bred into our experiences that don’t go away and sometimes come out in the wrong way.”
 
liblady said:
here's what he said:

“the point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn’t. But she is a typical white person who, you know, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn’t know, there is a reaction that has been bred into our experiences that don’t go away and sometimes come out in the wrong way.”
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Yes, I know what he said. He pointed out "white people" instead of just saying "human beings".
 
Mellie said:
Yes, I know what he said. He pointed out "white people" instead of just saying "human beings".
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so what? he never said white people are typically racist, did he?
 
Mellie said:
He didn't say "typical human being". He specified HER race.
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So you don't think different groups of human beings (i.e. difference races) hold generally different prejudices.
 
ReverendHellh0und said:
I think she's a 73 year old dingbat and I care about it as much as I care about Bidens "Articulate" comment, or hillary's indian comment, or Obama's "white people are typically racists comment...


idiotic but not indicicative of inherent racism of an entire party. :shrug:
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nice non answer, and you can't possibly think that behavior doesn't add to the perception that some republicans are racist. but i note you completely avoid addressing what she actually did.
 
theplaydrive said:
So you don't think different groups of human beings (i.e. difference races) hold generally different prejudices.
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I don't like to group people by race. I think most individuals have prejudices, yes.
 
liblady said:
nice non answer, and you can't possibly think that behavior doesn't add to the perception that some republicans are racist. but i note you completely avoid addressing what she actually did.
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I think liberals are racist....
 
liblady said:
nice non answer, and you can't possibly think that behavior doesn't add to the perception that some republicans are racist. but i note you completely avoid addressing what she actually did.
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What is a non answer about it? Because I didn't answer the way you wanted? :roll:
 
Mellie said:
I don't like to group people by race.
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So then do you deny that one's racial identity or appearance does not have an affect on their view of society and its members? (i.e. does a black person generally develop the same worldview as a white person relative to race?).

I think most individuals have prejudices, yes.
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Well, racism is generally based in a "fear of the other". So would it not make sense that relative to racism, races would be more likely to share certain prejudices?
 
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Chappy said:
Wow! A plagiarized list posted into a thread about an ethical lapse: the irony. But hey that's just me, so be it, I am not the one who looks foolish. :shrug:
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My control V failed.


http://gopcapitalist.tripod.com/democratrecord.html"


Is the correct link. My apologiez to the source. Get over your feigned outrage.
 
liblady said:
here's what he said:

“the point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn’t. But she is a typical white person who, you know, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn’t know, there is a reaction that has been bred into our experiences that don’t go away and sometimes come out in the wrong way.”
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You make excuses for racist comments, I dont. /thread


Why didn't you quote the other part of the controversy and what he said in the speech?
 
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Let's say someone had a racist sign at a rally. Someone said that was a "typical" tea partier. Wouldn't you take that as, gee, that person thinks tea partiers are racist? Wouldn't you take it as that person has no fondness of tea partiers?

Obama's comment was racist against white people. Simple as that.
 
ReverendHellh0und said:
You make excuses for racist comments, I dont. /thread

Why didn't you quote the other part of the controversy and what he said in the speech?
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How is it racist? Where did he say that once race was superior to another?
 
Barbbtx said:
Let's say someone had a racist sign at a rally. Someone said that was a "typical" tea partier. Wouldn't you take that as, gee, that person thinks tea partiers are racist? Wouldn't you take it as that person has no fondness of tea partiers?

Obama's comment was racist against white people. Simple as that.
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Racist? Where does he say that once race is superior to others?
 
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