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Isn't it sad that (Original Post)
PumpkinAle
Jul 2014
OP
Exactly. Many people are upset by relative trivia and apathetic about things that are
Louisiana1976
Jul 2014
#4
if you are making a point about DU, i have yet to see objections to swear words
La Lioness Priyanka
Jul 2014
#7
Wounded Bear
(58,649 posts)1. Yes, it is...
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)2. No one I take seriously.
randys1
(16,286 posts)3. Like our country having a total fit seeing a breast on a Super Bowl sunday?
Louisiana1976
(3,962 posts)4. Exactly. Many people are upset by relative trivia and apathetic about things that are
really a big deal.
redqueen
(115,103 posts)5. I don't know anyone like that...
and I live in a very red area.
Who are these people?
brer cat
(24,564 posts)6. I have never known anyone like that either.
I wonder where they have been all my life.
Phentex
(16,334 posts)9. me either...
Never once met someone like that. Not even conservatives, though arguably they didn't care about anything that wasn't self-serving.
La Lioness Priyanka
(53,866 posts)7. if you are making a point about DU, i have yet to see objections to swear words
just objections to misogyny/racism/homophobia/heterosexism perpetuated through language
PumpkinAle
(1,210 posts)14. It is regarding people in general not DU - n/t
conservaphobe
(1,284 posts)8. Misogynistic and racist language is worth a battle. nt
Quantess
(27,630 posts)10. The first two are low-hanging fruit.
Easy to target, while the latter three are a bit trickier to tackle.
Skittles
(153,160 posts)11. gun humpers get more upset over penis analogies
than they do over the constant senseless gun deaths in the news
madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)13. ^^^ THIS ^^^
Texasgal
(17,045 posts)12. HUH?
No one I know.
PumpkinAle
(1,210 posts)16. Thanks to Greenpeace Africa for the image!