re: Statues and Diversity: a lament

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Why not have all of us who don't buy this view of diversity hauled off and shot?

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Jesus Christ dude, we don't want to kill anyone. We just want your opinions and general ideas to be discarded, removed, and never again talked about in the name of diversity.

I'm guessing from your tone that you're a white boy. You don't get to tell us what words mean just because your daddy is rich. You don't need to be talking right now, you need to be listening.

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Then learn the objective meaning of the word diverse


Objective meaning? What authority do you have to say what is the "objective" meaning?

The definition of a word is a result of your life experiences, which in the case of peoples of color can be a result of living under systematic oppression thereby having a chilling effect on the world as they culturally perceive it.

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Wow! Way to politicize Webster! Hell with actual meaning, a word is now whatever somebody wants it to mean. And when two some bodies' life experiences differ, would it not be helpful to have an objective interpreter like Webster, to distinguish the concrete actual from the subjective notional?

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You don't get to tell us what words mean just because your daddy is rich. You don't need to be talking right now, you need to be listening.

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Words mean what they mean - I never wrote Webster. It is a tool any semi-intelligent person can consult, regardless of whether his daddy was rich or poor. As to my own daddy, he was not rich. Not even remotely. But then my daddy died in1999. Was that before you were born?

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Yeah that's probably right but your slave-owning grandparents did, and now you wanna use that to whitesplain us on words? Nah, that time is over. You and your Lily white friends need to be quiet and listen cause the time for y'all's answers is over. We're not being oppressed by y'all anymore.

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Sorry. My grandparents on both sides were poor, too. Fact is, my grandmothers were both widows. During the depression, one grandmother ran a pressing shop out of the house she rented. My other grandmother worked at Haspels' sweatshop as a seamstress, and was glad she had a job.

Note that the underlined words in the above quote are from you. Who is using hate speech and making intolerant, racist comments here? Tell me.

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poor

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and privileged, don't forget that.

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Oh I forgot. Ok you outed me. My great great grandparents owned six plantations and regularly oppressed all their slaves. And before he died in the 1920s, one grandfather was actually in the KKK. Or so the family lore contends. My mom was a baby in the late 1920s.

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I get the impression that you aren't taking this seriously.

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I get the impression that you aren't taking this seriously.

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Its too easy.

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You are literally worse than Hitler.

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Yes I am. Worked at one of the Kamps in Poland until the Ruskies came in and busted things up.