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Gedankenaustausch Donating Member (179 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-18-09 09:40 AM
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20. obfuscation eh?
haha how long have you been waiting to pull that one out? Esp. "your obfuscation is laughable." OMG please were not at a debate at a Mensa meeting. I'm glad you spend your time thumbing through your thesaurus (well, i'll give you more credit than that), learning words that no normal person uses, except of course to make fun of those who think that using words like obfuscation are cool, and then busting them out in places like internet forums. Jeez, give me a break. And don't you dare try to come back with, "well i'm sorry that you don't use words like that, haha i'm so educated I use them all the time" argument, because everyone knows thats bs including you. I mean come on, this is an internet forum, not a law review. You're not going to wow anyone with your use of a word like obfuscation. No one is going to be like, "OMG he used the word obfuscation, he's so witty, he must be so smart."

I'm going to guess that you went to college, and I then would guess that you never liked the frat crowd, never gave them a chance, they may have never given you a chance. Yeah some frats at some schools act like jackasses, and some of those jackasses have a lot of money. And guess what, it would reasonably follow that some gays at some schools act like jackasses, and some of those jackasses have a lot of money. I mean isn't this just ridiculous to talk about in the first place? Apparently you have some anger that you need to work out against the frat boys. If you didn't go to college, and therefore have little experience with frats, you're really casting judgement from a far.

Isn't it also a stereotype about gays thats the same thing? Loaded, lawyers a plenty, kinda goes hand-in-hand with good taste, good with clothing coordination? I mean look at our mainstream representation, when is the last time you saw a poor gay person on TV? With that type of representation and stereotypes in our culture, one could easily make an argument of "The gays get special treatment because they are all so rich, and have lawyers, and the ACLU always comes running to their side. They can get away with anything, no cop would ever mistreat them." But, you and I and everyone else that has a working brain knows thats crazy. It's the same with frat boys, when they're on TV, or mentioned by anyone who isn't a frat boy it's always the same old played out stereotype. I hate it when someone that has little knowledge of actual gay culture says stupid things like, "OMG I love to shop with my gay friends!" I also hate it when people attack frats as "parents having lawyers and money." Then try to say that they get away with everything because of this. All of these things are equally stupid. Try not to buy into them. I CAN tell you my experience is totally different from your disgusting stereotypes of frat life.

Furthermore, if I can quote the jest of your argument, I think you are trying to draw an inequality between the type of brutality and illegality between a the cops treatment of gays and fratboys? What a silly thing in the first place, but I know there is a lot of mistreatment by police towards gays, I also know that there is a lot of police mistreatment by police towards frat boys. They carry stupid stereotypes around about both. Most cops think all gays are gross and don't deserve equality, most cops think that all frat boys do coke and D&D and so if you have your letters on the back of your car and it's after 10pm, your going to be stopped and hassled with the same ol, I think I smell marijuana in the vehicle, i'm going to search it routine. Cops abuse everyone, but trying to say that one group gets picked on more than others is just childish. Everyone agrees that police overstep their boundaries, but when you start saying well this group gets it worse than this group, it pisses other people off and the more people you piss off the number of people against you increases. Don't be so unsupportive and dismissive of other groups being brutalized especially when your opinions are based on stereotypes.

B:T.W. i know that I stereotyped police in this, but I think that we both agree that police behave this way, so don't try to call me out on that.
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