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Originally posted by evman150@Mar 22 2005, 08:20 AM
Obviously the candy does not say "n____ babies" on the box. It's just what I know them as. I don't feel something like that makes me racist. It's not like obscure candy references come up in everyday life. I'm just informing you that the term is not antiquated as you seem to imply by your reference to a 63 year old woman using it.
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I know them as that too, but I'd never disgrace myself by actually calling them that. Ever. Even by myself. Using vocabulary like that propagates hate, regardless of how innocent you seem to think it is. Thinking Black people or Jews were less human than Whites used to be what people just 'know them as', but that sure doesn't make it close to right.
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I'm just informing you that the term is not antiquated as you seem to imply by your reference to a 63 year old woman using it.
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The term is thouroughly antiquated, and if you ever hear anyone say it who's under the age of 50, you're looking a racist smack in the eye. It may be that that racism is a result of their upbringing, fair enough, but its still completely wrong.
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I find people of other races unattractive and that makes me racist. I really do not understand this one. I cannot help who I am attraceted to. It's just my nature. And I don't think it's possible to be inherently (biologically) racist. If it is, then I guess you can call me biologically racist.
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I'd suggest you're right, its probably not possible to be inherently biologically racist. This means that you prefer your own race for other reasons, most likely as a result of your upbringing and environment. If you'd been brought up in a completely multi-racial society, with no race barriers, you'd probably be attracted to every kind of skin colour under the rainbow. It just so happens that you apparently didn't grow up in anything close to this type of environment.
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And concerning slavery in Canada, I looked it up and found zilch. If you have some links which support your thoughts please post them.
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How hard did you search? Type 'slavery in Canada' in Google and take a look at the first hit. There appears to be some evidence that there indeed were slaves in Canada, under both the French and English. This is the first hit, I'm sure there are others,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Canada