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Re:This Is My Racism by DanBC on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @06:24PM (#9971984)
GP post uses personal experience, but fails to understand that being white is a crucial detail. "Police are racist" isn't persuasively countered by "I'm white. They treat me okay". This is a point GP has made before. "Them black fellas would be fine if they weren't so uppity" is, not surprisingly, a touchy viewpoint.

(PaulHaugis does make some good points about lynchmods and bullying and it's weird that those posts get so heavily downvoted.)

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Re:This Is My Racism by GFK_of_xmaspast on Thursday July 30, 2015 @12:59PM (#9976318)
Thing about lynch mobs is there's a bit of distance between being downvoted on an internet discussion board and dangling neckwise from a poplar tree.
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Re:This Is My Racism by DanBC on Friday July 31, 2015 @02:27AM (#9980234)
Sure. Change the language - it's still a good point. He's not talking about a few downvotes either, he's talking about the huge numbers of people who get swept up into eg Twitter shitstorms. People lose their jobs after these campaigns.
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