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Old 07-27-2015, 11:28 AM   #155
CliffFletcher
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Originally Posted by Iggy City View Post
^ Man it's great being white eh?
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Originally Posted by rubecube View Post
This is privilege, dude. Bigotry is a lot more than just "unpleasantness" to those it actually affects.
“Goebbels was in favor of free speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you’re really in favor of free speech, then you’re in favor of freedom of speech for precisely the views you despise. Otherwise, you’re not in favor of free speech.”

― Noam Chomsky (that notorious and reactionary scion of Fox News bigotry)

Anyway, I doubt there's enough common ground for me to have a rational discussion with people who break humanity into sub-groups based on ethnic or religious identity and then assign those sub-groups rankings in a hierarchy of credibility and guilt based on arbitrary, simplistic, and subjective notions of privilege.
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