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chicagiana Donating Member (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-04 12:44 PM
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57. Well they are voting with this in mind ...

Guess what, we can VOTE to change the meaning of words. And white males are VOTING LIKE CRAZY this way!!!!

Look we need to CHANGE the langauge of civil rights. We need to stop identifying certain groups and provide EVERYBODY with protection against employment discrimination!!!

If a state is "at will" that minorities have rights that white males DO NOT! They have rights to sue for compensation if they are terminated for non-work related reasons. White males DO NOT.

We do NOT need laws against harrassing minorities. Burning crosses in the laws of "enner loving whites" should be just as illegal as burning one in a minority lawn. Dragging a black man down the highway is just as much a crime as if you did it to a white man.

Are you telling me that white men don't need protection against unfair dissmissal from work??? Are you telling me that white men don't need protection from being abducted and drug from a pickup truck traveling 70mph down a highway??? Are you telling me that burning down a WHITE church is less of a crime than burning down a BLACK church????

This is 100% about language that has alienated the majority group in America. It is not politically tenable!!! If you CHANGE the language, you get the same effect for minorities ... PLUS you get the benefit of protecting the majority as well. And that means mindshare and a larger political constituency!!!!

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