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cynatnite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 04:18 PM
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Poll question: Which is more rampant?
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Mountainman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 04:20 PM
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1. Obviously not knowing is very rampant.
If you stay out of GD primaries you would not know there was sexism or racism around and most of us stay out of there.
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Crazy Dave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 04:20 PM
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2. Stupidity and childishness n/t
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Toucano Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 04:21 PM
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3. I think it's a tie.
Sexism seems more rampant. Maybe it has a slight lead because it can still be overt, and racism is rarely tolerated in an overt manner.
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Lone_Star_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 04:22 PM
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4. Most people will answer according to what they've personally experienced.
Which doesn't make their answer more correct. Just more personal.
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wuushew Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 04:24 PM
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5. How do you measure an "ism"?
n/t
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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 04:25 PM
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6. Ditka vs. God in a golf match.
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JuniperLea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 04:34 PM
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7. Another choice would be...
Classism. There is a hell of a lot of it going around, and it is sometimes confused with racism since some of the numbers don't have race indicators.
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klook Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 04:39 PM
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8. Information Technology books are the most rampant
http://www.rampant-books.com/

Or, to quote Lauria Anderson, "Pineapple es mas macho que knife."
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Fovea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 04:44 PM
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9. Greed
surpassing all other vices. Greed abounds.
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 05:02 PM
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10. Other: both are bad. Is there a point to this? nt
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Lost-in-FL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 05:32 PM
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11. Depends who you ask.
Edited on Tue May-20-08 05:34 PM by Lost-in-FL
As a female and minority I am more inclined to see racism as more rampant. It could also mean that sometimes sexism is harder for me to identify due to "socialization" and cultural upbringing. Maybe it is that racism "touches you" the most. So I guess my answer is "I don't know".
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slackmaster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 05:35 PM
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12. "I don't know" is certainly more rampant than either sexism or racism
The problem is that most people don't know that they don't know.
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Lost-in-FL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 05:37 PM
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13. Which remind me of a quote.
"That there are known knowns,
There are things we know that we know,
There are known unknowns,
That is to say there are things that we now know, we don't know
But there are also unknown unknowns,
There are things we do not know we don't know
And each year we discover a few more
Of those unknown unknowns."
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Indenturedebtor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 05:48 PM
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14. Sexism will never go away
Ever. I posted I don't know which is more rampant, and I don't. But there will always be gender roles which restrict members of one gender or another in one way or another.

I'm not advocating for it. But the important thing is that we as a society let people do whatever the hell they want (so long as they're not hurting anyone else) and don't let our preconceptions and bigotry influence our decisions.
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damntexdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 06:23 PM
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15. It doesn't matter: they're both pervasive.
As also is ageism.
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 06:39 PM
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16. by far the most thorough and pervasive discrimination in this country
is against atheists.
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Bunny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 06:43 PM
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17. Sexism is certainly more tolerated. And less recognized.
I am constantly amazed at the level of denial re: sexism that prevails here at DU. Most of us can recognize racism, and racist ideas are not likely to get much traction here. But there is a huge, really huge, contingent of self-proclaimed progressives that seem determined to deny the very existence of sexism in society. And this has been true during my entire time here on this board, so spare me any "Hillary is a just a whiny loser" crap - the sexism here was entrenched well in advance of Hillary's presidential bid, and my comments in this post are not related to Hillary Clinton.
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