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Speck Tater

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7. I suspect there's a good reason for it.

Reply to MrScorpio (Original post)

Thu Apr 26, 2012, 10:07 PM

Apr 2012

Rich, white, privileged conservatives hang out with other of their kind, and so that's all they ever really see of the world. We "others", who are not part of their "club", seem like an abstraction. We are not actually real to them. We are more like characters in a novel or extras in a movie. And they maintain this attitude because they never interact with us, never experience our world, never share any of our typical experiences.

So don't ever expect them to take us seriously. We're simply not real to them.

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I suspect there's a good reason for it. Speck Tater Apr 2012 #7

I think you're right MrScorpio Apr 2012 #8

Absolutely. You talk to them and see that Populist_Prole Apr 2012 #9

I know that there are people out there like that, I'm just grateful that I don't know any personally MrScorpio Apr 2012 #12

A grand master fisherman and not a eridani Apr 2012 #14

You know me all too well. nt MrScorpio Apr 2012 #15

Yeah I've been wondering what a good slam of reality would do to them as well Populist_Prole Apr 2012 #16

They're aware of it too, thus their voter suppression laws 0rganism Apr 2012 #11