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LanternWaste

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38. I think it's less an accidental whoosh, and more a purposeful flush.

Reply to Coventina (Reply #29)

Tue May 19, 2015, 02:25 PM

May 2015

I think it's less an accidental whoosh, and more a purposeful flush. It can be rather difficult to discern that six of one is equal to half a dozen of the other if doing so invalidates a pre-existing bias.

(But we may finally rest easily in the knowledge that should gang violence ever erupt again, all that is required to deny any racial or social aspect is simply to point out the one white fella in any given group, as per the implicit instructions from our under-educated friends)

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Have fun with that. 99Forever May 2015 #27

That was the agenda of the op - JustAnotherGen May 2015 #28

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Yep - it is but it's not the individual per se JustAnotherGen May 2015 #30

I think it's less an accidental whoosh, and more a purposeful flush. LanternWaste May 2015 #38

As does the collective of white leaders decrying this, the fingers pointing to socio-indictment... LanternWaste May 2015 #37

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