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boston bean (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 07:09 AM Original message |
It's amazing what passes for BRILLIANCE these days. |
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CBGLuthier (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 07:10 AM Response to Original message |
1. Who asked you to embrace HIS beliefs |
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chimpymustgo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 07:47 AM Response to Reply #1 |
23. What thinking person would embrace Rev. Wright's hogwash about racial learning differences. |
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rucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 07:11 AM Response to Original message |
2. I saw that talking point last night, too. |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 07:12 AM Response to Original message |
3. I reject that concept completely. |
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Political Heretic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 07:13 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. At no point did he say it was genetic. |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 07:19 AM Response to Reply #5 |
7. Sorry, I still reject that kind of generalization |
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boston bean (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 07:22 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. I agree wholeheartedly with you on this cali. It might be a first or second, but |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 07:29 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. ack. that's.... strange. |
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boston bean (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 07:31 AM Response to Reply #9 |
10. As an olive branch |
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Political Heretic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 07:40 AM Response to Reply #7 |
14. I doubt you even watched the speech. |
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boston bean (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 07:44 AM Response to Reply #14 |
20. PH, I listened to it twice, believe what you want. nt |
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Political Heretic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 07:54 AM Response to Reply #20 |
29. Hoookay. |
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graycem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 08:30 AM Response to Reply #7 |
55. But |
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Brundle_Fly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 02:31 PM Response to Reply #5 |
80. yeah PH that stumped me too... |
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Political Heretic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 07:12 AM Response to Original message |
4. You didn't watch it. |
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boston bean (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 07:14 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. WRONG, I watched it twice. just to be sure what I thought I heard was really what I heard. nt |
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Political Heretic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 07:41 AM Response to Reply #6 |
16. Right. |
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Swamp Rat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 07:34 AM Response to Original message |
11. Did you listen to the FUX Noise version of the speech? |
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scheming daemons (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 07:38 AM Response to Original message |
12. Wright was making it clear that it was CULTURAL, not genetic.... but you heard |
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boston bean (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 07:41 AM Response to Reply #12 |
15. May I suggest you heard it wrong, when someone discussed left brain and right brain |
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Political Heretic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 07:53 AM Response to Reply #15 |
28. No, there's nothing about having a right or left brain preference that can't be culturally created |
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boston bean (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 07:57 AM Response to Reply #28 |
32. No sir, when you say the brain is different, you are making a biologic inference. |
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Political Heretic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 08:07 AM Response to Reply #32 |
42. lol, what is your degree in, exactly? |
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boston bean (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 08:09 AM Response to Reply #42 |
46. My degree is in the common sense arena, which you are obviously lacking. nt |
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Political Heretic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 08:19 AM Response to Reply #46 |
49. Yay! Resort to name-calling when you don't have a leg to stand on. |
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boston bean (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 09:30 AM Response to Reply #49 |
67. Hey listen book smarty pants, you are the one who claims to be smarter than someone else |
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Political Heretic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-29-08 04:18 AM Response to Reply #67 |
82. Well argued. |
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graycem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 08:33 AM Response to Reply #32 |
56. FIRST of all |
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terrell9584 (549 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 08:29 AM Response to Reply #28 |
54. Black American culture is a compendium of two influences |
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Tesha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 11:20 AM Response to Reply #54 |
73. Thank you! (NT) |
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Political Heretic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 06:43 PM Response to Reply #54 |
81. Thank you. Much more eloquent than I. |
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Cassandra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 08:19 AM Response to Reply #15 |
50. Perhaps you should read, The Alphabet Versus the Goddess |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 08:04 AM Response to Reply #12 |
39. Wait a minute, the Irish learn differently from the Russians? |
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sakura (660 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 09:02 AM Response to Reply #39 |
65. Poverty is the biggest factor... |
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terrell9584 (549 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 08:38 AM Response to Reply #12 |
58. There's no such thing as a monolithic white American culture |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 07:39 AM Response to Original message |
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Yossariant (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 07:41 AM Response to Original message |
17. Obviously, further explanation from Rev. Wright is in order. He should do more |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 07:42 AM Response to Reply #17 |
18. Don't blame Wright for your own ignorance. |
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Yossariant (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 07:47 AM Response to Reply #18 |
22. Some of us learn differently and need more desription than others. |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 07:50 AM Response to Reply #22 |
26. The defense rests. |
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Swamp Rat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 08:07 AM Response to Reply #26 |
44. LOL! |
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Yossariant (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 08:22 AM Response to Reply #26 |
52. WOW! Obviously, like so many, you don't believe Rev. Wright. |
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boston bean (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 07:47 AM Response to Reply #18 |
24. You sir are the ignorant one if you can't see that what he said is racist. |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 07:52 AM Response to Reply #24 |
27. Actually I don't buy into it. |
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Political Heretic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 07:57 AM Response to Reply #24 |
33. He's not implying anything of the sort. Just because you keep lying about it doesn't change that. |
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boston bean (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 07:58 AM Response to Reply #33 |
36. He was speaking of differences in the brain. what part do you not get. nt |
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Political Heretic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 08:01 AM Response to Reply #36 |
37. Differences of the brain don't have to be GENETIC JESUS FUCKING CHRIST |
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boston bean (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 08:04 AM Response to Reply #37 |
38. that is bull shit. your brain is made the way it is, nothing changes that. |
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Political Heretic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 08:17 AM Response to Reply #38 |
48. That is simply untrue. Anyone with background in the field will tell you its untrue. |
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Tesha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 08:50 AM Response to Reply #48 |
61. You're attempting to argue with someone who is here only to stir things up. |
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graycem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 08:37 AM Response to Reply #38 |
57. You are neither... |
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yodermon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 11:25 AM Response to Reply #38 |
75. "your brain is made the way it is, nothing changes that. " 100% Categorically false. |
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scheming daemons (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 11:39 AM Response to Reply #38 |
78. The most uninformed, incorrect statement you've ever uttered... and that's saying something... |
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Jamastiene (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 07:43 AM Response to Original message |
19. I have always thought eugenics was racist as hell. n/t |
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boston bean (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 07:48 AM Response to Reply #19 |
25. It's obviously brilliant if Wright believes in it and speaks to it. nt |
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Jamastiene (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 11:00 AM Response to Reply #25 |
69. I still trying to figure that out. |
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rodeodance (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 07:56 AM Response to Reply #19 |
31. Different forms of Eugenics keep popping up over the years |
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Usrename (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 11:33 AM Response to Reply #31 |
77. Do you even have a clue of what you are talking about? |
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Tesha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 07:44 AM Response to Original message |
21. Ahhh! You couldn't resist turning your thoughts into a thread! Well, that's one for your day. (NT) |
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rodeodance (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 07:55 AM Response to Reply #21 |
30. Just demean the OP instead of engaging in a discussion. Typical of so |
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Tesha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 07:57 AM Response to Reply #30 |
34. You, and Mass Dem, and Methuen Progressive... |
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rodeodance (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 08:05 AM Response to Reply #34 |
40. you have just proven my point--as you have leveled more insults. |
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Tesha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 08:07 AM Response to Reply #40 |
45. See my reply below. |
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boston bean (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 08:10 AM Response to Reply #45 |
47. you certainly can dole out the insults. nt |
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rodeodance (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 08:28 AM Response to Reply #45 |
53. Third time is a charm for you for personal insults. NOT. |
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Tesha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 08:42 AM Response to Reply #53 |
59. I am deeply, deeply concerned about any opinions you folks may have about me. |
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haymakeragain (841 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-29-08 12:34 PM Response to Reply #59 |
84. I'm concerned about them paying the bills. Don't they have jobs? |
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Maribelle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 08:56 AM Response to Reply #34 |
63. 'make me sick'? Then why on earth would you go into a thread MassDem has started and post? |
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Tesha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 09:17 AM Response to Reply #63 |
66. Becasuse the shit they post should occasionally be rebutted |
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Maribelle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 11:04 AM Response to Reply #66 |
70. That brown stuff you're seeing could just be the splashing from ... |
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Political Heretic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 07:58 AM Response to Reply #30 |
35. It's hardly worth engaging because its categorically false. |
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Tesha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 08:05 AM Response to Reply #35 |
41. And as I aluded, I already saw MassDemm post this stuff as a reply, and replied there |
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Blue-Jay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 08:07 AM Response to Original message |
43. I'm sold! |
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goclark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 08:21 AM Response to Original message |
51. When eyes /ears are wide shut no learning takes place |
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JoFerret (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 08:49 AM Response to Original message |
60. Time to let it go. There is good brain science out there |
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Texas Hill Country (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 08:50 AM Response to Original message |
62. it was horribly racist and divisive, I was extremely offended. |
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Usrename (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 11:22 AM Response to Reply #62 |
74. You were extremely offended? Really? |
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EffieBlack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 08:57 AM Response to Original message |
64. Whoosh!!! |
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madrchsod (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 10:04 AM Response to Reply #64 |
68. well EffieBlack.... |
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Maribelle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 11:12 AM Response to Reply #64 |
71. 'too deep'? |
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IndianaJones (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 11:18 AM Response to Original message |
72. I believe he was only referring to typical white people. nt. |
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unblock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 11:30 AM Response to Original message |
76. (a) he didn't say genetic; quite the opposite; (b) brain-sidedness is a cultural construct |
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smiley_glad_hands (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 11:45 AM Response to Original message |
79. It's amazing what passes for progressivism these days. eom |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-29-08 12:21 PM Response to Original message |
83. It's amazing what passes for comprehension skills these days. |
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