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Bandit

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5. I don't think we are "supposed to be outraged"

Reply to Warren Stupidity (Reply #3)

Wed Jan 28, 2015, 06:47 PM

Jan 2015

I think we are only contrasting how we look at things and how the right looks at things. You may be "outraged" but for me it takes quite a bit more than a head scarf here or there.

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I don't think we are "supposed to be outraged" Bandit Jan 2015 #5

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