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Southerner Logic Will Make You Lose All Hope - Rebel HQ (Original Post) ItsjustMe Mar 2022 OP
People need to spend some time BlueSky3 Mar 2022 #1
72 years old, lived in NC and GA all my life. Don't lump us all together. CurtEastPoint Mar 2022 #2
Actually, it used to be Turbineguy Mar 2022 #3
I seem to remember President Kennedy getting laughs when soldierant Mar 2022 #5
I dount that Richard Ojeda would have let this get by. soldierant Mar 2022 #4

BlueSky3

(733 posts)
1. People need to spend some time
Sun Mar 13, 2022, 04:32 PM
Mar 2022

in the South before making a sweeping generalization like this. Racism is not confined to southern states. Many people who are actively anti-racist are here, too.

soldierant

(9,372 posts)
5. I seem to remember President Kennedy getting laughs when
Sun Mar 13, 2022, 10:15 PM
Mar 2022

he called Washington D.C a coty of "Southern efficiency and Northern charm." That wasn't how people expected the phrase to come out. And is was funny.

soldierant

(9,372 posts)
4. I dount that Richard Ojeda would have let this get by.
Sun Mar 13, 2022, 10:13 PM
Mar 2022

He does a fair about of work for Rebel HQ and, I am sure, knows better.

The headline should have referenced "Racist Logic" without regard to place. Racism is everyehere, and everywhere, this is its logic.

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