Rights and privileges are two entirely different things.

[bettyellen]

31. I do think you are spot on with the lack of empathy part, but not entirley with the lazy thinking

I think too many people like to derail conversations here by whatever means they can use. Nit picking on terminology- refusing to accept what another person is saying even when given the context- becomes the whole conversation. Instead of accepting that the definition one person pull out of websters today is not the only one and conversing in good faith, they focus on that nit. You see way too much of this here, and mostly from people who do lack empathy. It's great for those whose only problem with racism is hurt feelings on a meesage board. They get to engage and pat themseves on the back for being "correct" when all they are doing is disrupting a good faith conversation.

Speaking of disrupting- where's our friend with the gas can? LOL. He's going to be disppointed we actually continued a civil conversation!