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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I would wager that most of the people in the city are not shooting at helicopters or raping and looting, but the media doesn't seem to want to get its feet too wet, so all the poor, black people there get lumped together as "them."
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Actually, I just saw a piece about a poor guy who saved family of well to do tourists.
BTW, liberal suburban white guilt is a tad passe (U2 wore it out sometime around their fourth record). I generally find that everyone's better off when we stop describing people by their race or offering it as a distinction. Really, if liberals are so damned progressive, why are they still defining people by their race/ethnicity/sex? Its a total comedy act to hear screaming liberals debate - everybody's an "African American gentleman" or "Mexican American," etc... They love highlighting their heritage - "Tom's of Ashkenasi Jewish descent" or "Mary's the product of a lesbian household."
Try forgetting about people's backgrounds for a while and just thinking of them as people. We're all fucking mutts.
Who wants the soapbox next... I'm done.
