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Showing Original Post only (View all)Did you ever notice that some people are more outraged at racist rich white punks getting [View all]
Last edited Tue Mar 17, 2015, 11:11 AM - Edit history (1)
expelled from a university for bragging about discriminating against black people than they are at thousands of black people in Ferguson having their civil rights trashed by their own government and police force on a daily basis?
Things that make you go "hmmmmmm."
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Did you ever notice that some people are more outraged at racist rich white punks getting [View all]
geek tragedy
Mar 2015
OP
Yep. The mask of civility has dropped off their faces to show the racist hidden beneath these
BlueCaliDem
Mar 2015
#1
I find it kind of funny how you use a racially loaded term to describe racists
CBGLuthier
Mar 2015
#2
I was thinking the same thing. The reason given for a male to join a southern fraternity is to
Sarcastica
Mar 2015
#36
I disagree, but to avoid further distraction I will change based on your input
geek tragedy
Mar 2015
#47
that you have to modify it with 'rich' does not such thing: it just means "rich people acting like
ND-Dem
Mar 2015
#68
i find it funny you use a term that denigrates whites because they're poor to denigrate these
ND-Dem
Mar 2015
#66
You're missing the fact the OP decided to edit the title on the original post.
onenote
Mar 2015
#102
Yeah, those people are probably Koch-paid to be outraged. Just as Kochs and their ilk
valerief
Mar 2015
#4
What I'm saying is that there are some white people who are all up in arms about
geek tragedy
Mar 2015
#8
Well, thank goodness you were here to 'splain what is and is not offensive, and to whom.
Orsino
Mar 2015
#39
Well, whatever made you think it might be offensive, I appreciate that impulse. n/t
Orsino
Mar 2015
#58
you haven't noticed anyone, anywhere complain that the OU racists were being treated unfairly
geek tragedy
Mar 2015
#12
See below, at least one person learned about the DOJ report thanks to this thread. nt
geek tragedy
Mar 2015
#28
I've debated at least two people here who have a history of apologism for the Ferguson PD
geek tragedy
Mar 2015
#18
Oh OH!.. Paul Krugman referred to "rich white trash"..!! They're "white" check.. they're "rich"
Cha
Mar 2015
#106
I trust the DOJ's work on both counts here. It seems the "hands up, don't shoot"
geek tragedy
Mar 2015
#38
I have not noticed anyone here defending the frat rats' right to express their
KingCharlemagne
Mar 2015
#43
It seems to me that people are just getting more & more tired of B.S. as is.....
AverageJoe90
Mar 2015
#75
sort of like folks only glomming on to the part of the DOJ report re: Officer Wilson, but silent
salin
Mar 2015
#76
I just saw someone said that the racist frat guys were just "kids being kids"
Number23
Mar 2015
#107
Did you ever notice that some people are more outraged at/concerned with ...
1StrongBlackMan
Mar 2015
#96
I'll be looking for a similar reply when some fool on DU uses the word "thug" again.
U4ikLefty
Mar 2015
#105