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Old 12-20-2010, 11:48 AM   #69
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Originally Posted by SeeBass View Post
How do you know he is not obliged to sit at the table?
Is he in a meeting, a vegas poker game, world arm wrestling competition, at the in-laws for dinner, CIA interrogation

So you are wrong it is not black and white
Completely different situation. If you are sitting at a table, would you be obliged to stay if the other person were calling you fat? How about ugly? How about if he insulted your parents or repeatedly called you stupid? What if he insulted the integrity of your spouse/significant other? Would you stay and endure that? Probably not. You'd probably get sick of hearing it and leave. Yet, would you support the coach packing up his team and leaving if one of his players had been called fat/stupid/ugly/etc. as opposed to the N-word? Probably not.

I'm your average white guy, so racist comments directed at me don't really make much of a dent. However, I can't imagine that directing the N-word to a black person could be anymore offensive than someone insulting my mother to me. For me, that's always been something that I refuse to tolerate, yet if someone insulted my mother, and the coach chose to forfeit the game, I can't imagine he would have gotten any support around here.
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