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Dean's Comments
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Originally posted by sgtclub
To All:
1. Please explain how equating "staff" jobs with minorities is not stereotyping based on race? You may want to provide a cite for your contention that truth is a defense.
2. Assuming that your response in #1 continues to defend the comments, please explain what your response would have been had Dean been the chair of the GOP, rather than the DNP.
You have 30 minutes. Good luck.
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Answering you a little more seriously, your question isn't reflecting the true nature of his statement. You have to look at the entire statement as a whole. He's not saying that minorities only serve in the capacity of "staff." He's saying that the only minorities that generally are let into GOP events like the one he was speaking at are the people that they pay to be there in a service capacity. (CF. Wonkette's challenge during the GOP convention to try and find ANY person of color attending the events. I think the Daily Show had a similar montage of people of color cleaning up after the RNC. It's an old joke.)
It was an insult to Republicans, not people of color. You should be sputtering in outrage on behalf of yourself, not on behalf of me and my service industry working relatives.
ETclarify
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Last edited by Replaced_Texan; 02-17-2005 at 01:53 PM..
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