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In reply to the discussion: May I acknowledge a DUer [View all]Despite having to admit that I missed Effie's dad's age by 8 years and made a wildly inaccurate assumption about her mother's age, those errors do not in any way negate my real point that, for all that we share by virtue of our race, her family's accomplishments set them apart from a majority of others within our community and that those within that part of the community suffer in additional ways, ways that do not get discussed.
There is not one word in the OP about Effie which is anything less than laudatory or genuine. What there is are dozens of replies saying "We know you don't mean it. You really mean this." while STILL refusing to talk about the ways many in our community suffer in ways little changed since the Civil Rights era.
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I'm getting that the writer of this OP is AA. I'm still try to understand the motivation.
brush
Apr 2018
#176
best post I've read on DU in some time - both Effie's part, and your response. Thank you (both!)
NRaleighLiberal
Apr 2018
#4
As I said to Lex, I ended up being quite confused by both of them and dropped out of the thread...
Hekate
Apr 2018
#207
Only if you think thinly veiled hit pieces on other DUers are incredible nt
stevenleser
Apr 2018
#93
We know EXACTLY what is going on here. I just wish to FUCK we didnt have to
Eliot Rosewater
Apr 2018
#160
It is really interesting, Effie. It shows how you live rent-free in some people's heads
lunamagica
Apr 2018
#34
Ive stopped being surprised at the gaslighting and other dishonest tactics from a certain segment
stevenleser
Apr 2018
#83
Nope, they don't, there is no opinion here. It's a thinly veiled hit piece on another DUer. nt
stevenleser
Apr 2018
#137
It is, and we have NO idea who is who here as to certain things, do we.
Eliot Rosewater
Apr 2018
#162
Sadly we will have this to reflect on for some time...personally I am so fucking angry
Eliot Rosewater
Apr 2018
#156
I still don't get the motivation behind this OP. AAs and other POCs have all experienced...
brush
Apr 2018
#180
Still don't get it. We all live, have lived, or have family members in one or the other worlds you..
brush
Apr 2018
#196
Couldn't disagree more. We are not a monolith. Progressives understand that as well as anyone...
brush
Apr 2018
#201
Everyone now has had the time to read it all, so continued recs of the OP here tells us
Eliot Rosewater
Apr 2018
#173
You seem like a good person but apparently you will say anything to protect a certain politician
emulatorloo
Apr 2018
#36
Posts like the OP don't reflect well on the candidates they appear to be supporting.
yardwork
Apr 2018
#68
Most importantly, he will be vetted by the voters as they've done already. BTW...
George II
Apr 2018
#109
A rose by any other name is the false equivalency that some would like to paint, in order to
still_one
Apr 2018
#54
Not a single Democrat or progressive or liberal or Socialist I know would ever mock and dismiss
EffieBlack
Apr 2018
#79
Interesting how you have to dance so much, we all do, when what we should be
Eliot Rosewater
Apr 2018
#168
And here I thought I was clicking on a something nice in this time of backbiting and snark.
phylny
Apr 2018
#72
Yep a thinly veiled hit piece at Effie. The OP thinks themselves too clever by a lot.
stevenleser
Apr 2018
#87
It's very emblematic of the way JPR types discourse. Very dishonest, rife with logical fallacies and
stevenleser
Apr 2018
#147
Amazing how that works right? They attack someone else and they are the victim. nt
stevenleser
Apr 2018
#141
It's worse than plain negativity which would be honest. It's negativity often presented deceptively.
stevenleser
Apr 2018
#148
You do realize that you are not making friends and have alienated a large number of posters
Gothmog
Apr 2018
#172
Funny how many white DUers in this thread think they have identified the "right side" of an internal
redgreenandblue
Apr 2018
#128