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Originally Posted by fatso
You have got to be kidding me. You can't really think it's only the perceiver who bears responsibility for perpetuating stereotypes. THat is such a total cop-out.
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Never said that, did I? I said perception is reality for those who are perceiving it. I also never said anything about stereotypes. But let me ask you this: when a mentally challenged person is BY DEFINITION, ######ed, is that a stereotype?
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Let me give you two examples.
The car's progress through the intersection was ######ed due to construction.
Firefly is such a ######.
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So I'm confused here. In calling me a ###### are you insulting me, or ######ed people? I'm fairly certain here you're trying to insult me, so why would someone who is by definition ######ed be offended by that? It wasn't directed at them.
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Are you telling me the use of the word '######' in each phrase has the same meaning and that both can only be offensive insofar as they are perceived by a listener? The speaker of each sentence bears no responsibility for their language usage?
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What I'm saying is why do the mentally challenged feel the need to take offense at things that aren't directed at them? Oh wait, I don't even think it's the mentally challenged people who are taking offense, I think it's the people around them who do so.
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By the way, your post on 'white' was probably the whitest thing i've ever read.
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Glad to see you get it.
