Wow! Stay classy OU

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1972 Grad said:
That's the difference between you and me. You are trying to make a statement to make yourself feel good or look good. I'm just eating lunch.
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There's more than one difference between you and me: I have standards, and supporting or associate with a racist idiot would violate those standards. A tasty burger isn't worth compromising my morality.
 
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bamawriter said:
There's more than one difference between you and me: I have standards, and supporting or associate with a racist idiot would violate those standards. A tasty burger isn't worth compromising my morality.
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I have plenty of standards and good morals. I don't let them affect where I shop.

If a fellow soldier beside you in a foxhole was helping to keep you alive, what would your high standards tell you to do then? Would you get up and say no thanks, because he said a bad word?
 
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#353
Bjorn_Yesterday said:
...for not being crazy about apartment parties. Which is why I've accused you of a really ridiculous tendency called confirmation bias.

Also, if you were in college 40 years ago, you definitely didn't have the same apartment party experience I did. Y'know, having your shoes stuck to the carpet, picking up pube covered beer pong balls, etc.
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Ah, yes, college in the 70's, where my would-be A Chi O sisters and I polished our needlework skills, and the guys set up the croquet matches.

All I can tell you is that, to this day, I can't hear Dark Side of the Moon without smelling pot. And just like Bill Clinton, I didn't inhale (except that I truly didn't), but I got buzzed walking down the halls of my (coed) dorm.

Bless your heart, you young whippersnapper you. :)
 
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1972 Grad said:
I have plenty of standards and good morals. I don't let them affect where I shop.
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Then you and have another difference: our understanding of the word "plenty".

If a fellow soldier beside you in a foxhole was helping to keep you alive, what would your high standards tell you to do then? Would you get up and say no thanks, because he said a bad word?
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Where I spend money is very rarely a life-and-death decision. If it makes you feel better, I wouldn't hesitate to save the life of a racist idiot if I found myself in such a situation.
 
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#355
bamawriter said:
Then you and have another difference: our understanding of the word "plenty".



Where I spend money is very rarely a life-and-death decision. If it makes you feel better, I wouldn't hesitate to save the life of a racist idiot if I found myself in such a situation.
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I guess that you feel like you are a better person than me because you won't buy a burger from someone who said the N word.

One of these days in your little utopian world, maybe you can go online and see if a business owner has ever made a racial comment in his private life, and you can punish him with your absence.

Maybe someday you will be able to read the business owner's innermost thoughts, and you can be in charge of "getting his mind right." Wouldn't that make for a perfect world? What could be better? I know! You can be in charge of the "Thought Police." YOU can make a difference. Right now you are whizzing in the wind.
 
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1972 Grad said:
I guess that you feel like you are a better person than me because you won't buy a burger from someone who said the N word.

One of these days in your little utopian world, maybe you can go online and see if a business owner has ever made a racial comment in his private life, and you can punish him with your absence.

Maybe someday you will be able to read the business owner's innermost thoughts, and you can be in charge of "getting his mind right." Wouldn't that make for a perfect world? What could be better? I know! You can be in charge of the "Thought Police." YOU can make a difference. Right now you are whizzing in the wind.
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Your hyperbolic inanity does nothing but highlight how badly you are missing the point.

I don't care if someone is a racist, or an idiot, or a racist idiot. The great thing about this country is that you are just as free to be ignorant as you are to be wise. But, I don't want to associate with someone who I know to be a racist idiot. If he keeps it to himself, then I guess I'm just blissfully ignorant.

For everyone that has harped on the First Amendment issues at hand, you have completely ignored what has long been accepted as an implicit right protected by the First Amendment: the Freedom of Association. I have the right to associate with whom I choose in both my public and private dealings. The government cannot make me associate with any individual or group with whom I don't wish to associate.

If you don't mind associating with idiot racists, then the government can't tell you not to.
 
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bamawriter said:
Your hyperbolic inanity does nothing but highlight how badly you are missing the point.

I don't care if someone is a racist, or an idiot, or a racist idiot. The great thing about this country is that you are just as free to be ignorant as you are to be wise. But, I don't want to associate with someone who I know to be a racist idiot. If he keeps it to himself, then I guess I'm just blissfully ignorant.

For everyone that has harped on the First Amendment issues at hand, you have completely ignored what has long been accepted as an implicit right protected by the First Amendment: the Freedom of Association. I have the right to associate with whom I choose in both my public and private dealings. The government cannot make me associate with any individual or group with whom I don't wish to associate.

If you don't mind associating with idiot racists, then the government can't tell you not to.
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Your point seems to be that you are trying to undo the fact that your relatives probably owned slaves at some point. Mine didn't.
 
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VolNExile said:
Ah, yes, college in the 70's, where my would-be A Chi O sisters and I polished our needlework skills, and the guys set up the croquet matches.

All I can tell you is that, to this day, I can't hear Dark Side of the Moon without smelling pot. And just like Bill Clinton, I didn't inhale (except that I truly didn't), but I got buzzed walking down the halls of my (coed) dorm.

Bless your heart, you young whippersnapper you. :)
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1972 Grad said:
So you have to resort to demeaning and degrading me now? Does that make you feel better about yourself?
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The instant you resorted to ad hominem drivel, you didn't deserve anything more than being demeaned.

Did you actually expect a response to that kind of nonsense?
 
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bamawriter said:
The instant you resorted to ad hominem drivel, you didn't deserve anything more than being demeaned.

Did you actually expect a response to that kind of nonsense?
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I expected it from someone who carries scars from being from Alabama, the home state of Edmund Pettus and George Corley Wallace. You needn't feel guilt all your life.
 
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bowlinggreenvol said:
Only since you were 4, your words. Bama before then? Mama and daddy from Bama? Or bandwagon?
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My dad was stationed in AL when I was born. Both my parents went to Bama, but neither spent more that a few years of their childhoods in the state. My Dad had nearly doubled his time in the state by the time he'd finished his freshman year in T-Town.

But even if I was really "from" Alabama, 72's inanity would still be just that.
 
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bamawriter said:
My dad was stationed in AL when I was born. Both my parents went to Bama, but neither spent more that a few years of their childhoods in the state. My Dad had nearly doubled his time in the state by the time he'd finished his freshman year in T-Town.

But even if I was really "from" Alabama, 72's inanity would still be just that.
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Tying to create a little separation from Alabama, I see. LMAO! It won't wash off.
 
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