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Fight_n_back

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Thu Oct-16-03 04:33 PM
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Let me ask you an honest question

If there were a thread in LBN that said asomething to the effect that racism against blacks was on the rise and most of the repsondents said, "Well that makes sense because they are crimianls" wouldn't you be ashamed of this board and expect every black to pack up and leave? Wouldn't there be a huge outcry?

I would hope that there would.

I really do hope that there would...

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Boudicea

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Thu Oct-16-03 04:35 PM
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1. Yes, I hope there would be an outcry

and that the mods would lock the thread. Why do you ask? (I don't visit LBN much.)

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Girlfriday

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Thu Oct-16-03 04:36 PM
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2. What?

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rasputin1952

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Thu Oct-16-03 04:43 PM
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3. I certainly hope so...

you haven't been over to the freeper site have you?

This sounds like something that pops up over there all the time. Blaming a race, ethnic group, or women, seems to be the norm at FR.

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GoddessOfGuinness

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Thu Oct-16-03 04:50 PM
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4. I'm all for an outcry...but I'd hope they wouldn't leave...

just because some racist freeper posted something deliberately intended to divide people.

Putting such posters on ignore and alerting the moderators seems like a better solution than handing the site over to rednecks.

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displacedtexan

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Thu Oct-16-03 05:00 PM
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5. outrage? yes.

but i would hope that blacks understood that one voice does not speak for the thousands of the rest of us.

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liberalmuse

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Thu Oct-16-03 05:09 PM
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6. There are billions of such scenarios that could happen...

Edited on Thu Oct-16-03 05:11 PM by liberalmuse

but it's likely they ever will, unless you go to some Republican-run website. My first thought would be, 'bigot' and I'd feel sad for the dimwit who posted such a ignorant statement.

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soleft

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Thu Oct-16-03 05:30 PM
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7. Was that post allowed to stay?

I didn't read it, but I wouldn't be ashamed of the entire board (again, isn't that blaming an entire group of people) but I'd expect the mods to address it. And I'd have zero respect for the person who posted it.

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