re: Please explain something to me..

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Fat people - Smokers - Anyone with tattoos or piercings or both - Poor people - Anyone that shops at Walmart - Gays - People of color, there's definitely serious overtones of racism here - Rural people - "Trashy" is a word that's used generously around this board and it has a broad definition, which could mean anything. - Homeless people

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You must be fat, smoke, have tattoos or piercings or both, poor, shop at Walmart, gay, person of color, racist, live in the country, trashy and nearly homeless.
Am I close?

u forgot to add people from New Iberia.

OP, help me know something about you....

I agree that racism can be found on here, but it is relatively rare. I hate seeing it, though. References to the former first lady being a man (or worse) is cringeworthy, and some of those ARE racist. And I am someone who despised that divisive, America-hating, moderately attractive bitch, that the media treated as if she was a glamorous, dainty, high-society, rocket surgeon.

I'm more inclined to notice that stereotypical observations ARE joked about to on here, or directly confronted.

So tell me this... is a joke about a black kid not having a father racist to you? Or a reasonable jab, based on WELL-documented statistics.

Or a post about the crime rate amongst blacks when compared to ALL other segments. Statistically, that figure BLOWS UP all other racial populations. Is that racist?

I ask this because my Beto-loving friends in Phoenix and I had dinner recently, and they felt my just bringing up the crime rate as a fact was borderline racist. Which it is obviously not.

So give me some insight.