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Horse with no Name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-30-06 09:37 PM Original message |
GM pulls its ‘Survivor’ sponsorship--says it isn't about race |
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NYCGirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-30-06 09:39 PM Response to Original message |
1. And every time someone won the car, they got voted off the island. It was |
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spindrifter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-30-06 09:42 PM Response to Original message |
2. What possessed Survivor to divide into racial teams? |
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Horse with no Name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-30-06 09:44 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. My personal opinion? |
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ComerPerro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-30-06 09:46 PM Response to Reply #3 |
7. racism, today, is completey ok as long as you qualify it |
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Horse with no Name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-30-06 09:49 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Yes. |
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ComerPerro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-30-06 09:58 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. Remeber the white people who found some bread? |
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Horse with no Name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-30-06 10:01 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. Yep. |
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ComerPerro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-30-06 10:03 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. no suprise that N.O. became a cesspool of violence and death |
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Richard Steele (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-30-06 10:04 PM Response to Reply #10 |
15. Black people LOOT; white people "find things". |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-30-06 10:19 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. How do you know the 2 people in 2nd photo are "white", Hmmmm? |
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ComerPerro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-30-06 10:35 PM Response to Reply #17 |
22. you're absolutely right. There is no racism anymore. Anywhere |
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ComerPerro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-30-06 10:36 PM Response to Reply #15 |
23. I didn't notice that detail until you pointed it out |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-30-06 10:16 PM Response to Reply #10 |
16. The white/black looting photo bull? DU'ers showed their own racism |
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Richard Steele (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-30-06 10:23 PM Response to Reply #16 |
19. Ooookaaay. |
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ComerPerro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-30-06 10:34 PM Response to Reply #16 |
21. well, that's just it, isn't it. LOOKED white |
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Richard Steele (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-30-06 10:02 PM Response to Reply #3 |
13. Yeah, they 've felt safe to crawl out from under their rocks again lately. |
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soothsayer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-30-06 10:40 PM Response to Reply #3 |
24. I think it's racist to DISLIKE this season of survivor, whereas if you |
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ComerPerro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-30-06 10:46 PM Response to Reply #24 |
26. sounds like conservative apologist bullshit |
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Richard Steele (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-31-06 01:51 AM Response to Reply #24 |
28. They divide people by RACE, and you are 'puzzled' by the cries of RACISM. |
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kenny blankenship (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-30-06 09:46 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. probably the desire to target product ads to different demographics |
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ComerPerro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-30-06 09:45 PM Response to Original message |
4. wish they would have said it was about race |
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NYCGirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-30-06 10:43 PM Response to Reply #4 |
25. But, according to the article, they made the decision months ago, before |
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ComerPerro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-30-06 10:55 PM Response to Reply #25 |
27. ahh, well then, guess there was no possibility |
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Orrex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-30-06 09:46 PM Response to Original message |
6. Hmm.... |
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derby378 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-30-06 09:51 PM Response to Original message |
9. Has SURVIVOR "jumped the shark?" |
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NYCGirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-30-06 09:59 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. Not for me. It's my favorite guilty pleasure. Even if the people are bores |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-30-06 10:21 PM Response to Original message |
18. If you want to watch SURVIVORS check out the footage of NOLA post-Katrina |
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Horse with no Name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-30-06 10:29 PM Response to Reply #18 |
20. I've never seen the show |
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