Re:It's Different for Girls
by pekk on Friday May 02, 2014 @07:24PM
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Or maybe you are prejudiced. There are also people who think black men are all criminals; they'd also say "maybe this is far, far more common than many people would like to think."
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Re:It's Different for Girls
by stcredzero on Friday May 02, 2014 @08:26PM
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It is far more common than I'd like to think. Facts aren't racist. It's the particular spin placed on those facts which is or isn't racist.
Some difficulties with discussing this sort of misbehavior are the different contextual meanings of "often." Even if a bad behavior is rare, it can still cast a constant shadow, especially when it can happen without warning, and especially when it comes disguised as something else. Even more so when it's attached to highly personal subjects, and even more so when the circumstance is something one has been born into and experienced ones whole life. I'm not sure there is any effective way to understand such an experience without living it.