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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
As I've mentioned, people who would never ever say a racist thing have a few drinks its on for the racial slurs. So you're suggesting that these thoughts of racisms only manifest themselves when these people are drunk? I simply don't believe that. The thoughts are already there, the alcohol essentially acts as an agent to bring out these thoughts. But its not like they don't have these feelings already, they are simply supressing them. So while you can argue they'd never do these things sober, I simply think there's a barrier of fear (being labeled a racist is a tough one to overcome) that seems to disappear with alcohol. Similarily, if there was no fear of being outed as a racist, I think you'd see those people acting more racist.
Ultimately we'll never agree on this, so arguing back and forth seems pointless.
Right...so if you're cool bashing other teams without merit or validity, you should then also be cool taking it, no?
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This is 100% correct even with out the alcohol. It reminds me of a study I read where all of the top e-dating sites were polled and 50% of Caucasian women claimed to be okay with contacting men from another race and 80% of Caucasian men said the same. Of those people 90% of men sent their emails to white women and 97% of women sent them to white men only.
The same study talked about the senate race in Louisiana in 1990 where a high ranking member of the KKK ran for the position and garnered over 20% more votes than had been recorded in pre-election polls. So really, what they found is that people give the guise of not being racists or being discriminatory but underneath when not scrutinized by the public there is alot more of them out there than people realize.