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Thread #55186   Message #859746
Posted By: GUEST,Fred Miller
06-Jan-03 - 10:08 AM
Thread Name: BS: How to End Racism
Subject: RE: BS: How to End Racism
Al Yuk, at least there are your brilliant insights to keep the thread going. You're back to your typical style, after your previous post.

   My post which you called smug conceited old claptrap wasn't meant to be, but if it seemed I was pretending to be above any racist perceptions, I guess it's fair. I meant only that I felt ridiculously arrogant when I used to try to hold an opinion on race at all. It's not really an intellectual sort of thing, and I don't feel I need to have a big opinion about it. As for old, I thought this was my own thinking , I don't know where you've heard it before, and it doesn't matter. I'll try to be fresher. As for sociological something or other, I'm not sure if you meant me or other posts in general, but I was actually making fun of a intellectual or sociological approach, because I think it has nowhere to go. It's a reaction to the pseudo-intellectual rationales of racism, and winds up making the same sort of error, to oppose it. Just my thoughts, in case they were misunderstood to mean that I think I'm above it all.

   I think you've confused humility with arrogance and not just about my post, but about people who are particularly religious, you've confused this thread about rascism with your zenophobic and nationalist feelings about immigrants, and you're just plain rude about all your half-baked ideas, offering little insight from your life, and continue criticising generally as if everyone has turned in their thoughts and core beliefs for your approval. Talk about arrogant. In this way, dude, you make a convincing impression of a pretty messed-up puppy.

   The teletubbies are different colors, and they all get along fine, even the gay one, Tinky Winky, I thinky.