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Staph

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14. I heard the same descriptions

Reply to Eleanors38 (Reply #5)

Wed Sep 7, 2016, 07:19 PM

Sep 2016

of Native Americans from my relatives in Montana and the Dakotas. Though, don't forget to add "drunk".

It's the description of the "other", whoever that "other" might be. And it stinks!

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Texas teachers are uniting to oppose this unbelievably racist textbook about Mexicans [View all] KamaAina Sep 2016 OP

Good grief! radical noodle Sep 2016 #1

Chapter 4 - Invasi�n de los Camiones de Tacos Glassunion Sep 2016 #3

Bleh! I can just imagine yuiyoshida Sep 2016 #2

They're attributing the difference to culture, not race. LittleDuckie Sep 2016 #4

It's obvious bigotry. So fucking what? Anything else you'd like to parse? nt Guy Whitey Corngood Sep 2016 #7

I don't care what they are attributing to. RoverSuswade Sep 2016 #9

You should read Bonilla-Silva's "Racism without Racists" ck4829 Sep 2016 #12

don't need my xray glasses to see through you Skittles Sep 2016 #13

That's still racism. gollygee Sep 2016 #15

Um, no. LittleDuckie Sep 2016 #20

No, it's just a word game gollygee Sep 2016 #22

"lazy," "sexually loose," "poor workers," "smell dfferent," etc. are fill-in-the blank stereos. Eleanors38 Sep 2016 #5

I heard the same descriptions Staph Sep 2016 #14

That is more or less what the Han attribute to Wuropeans AngryAmish Sep 2016 #18

See kids, if the Mexicans hadn't been so lazy and drunk, LuvNewcastle Sep 2016 #6

We have a handy-dandy sarcasm emoji that's perfect for posts like that KamaAina Sep 2016 #10

Texas ...... leading the world in education Angry Dragon Sep 2016 #8

what a load of horseshit quickesst Sep 2016 #11

And burn madokie Sep 2016 #17

Thy are... quickesst Sep 2016 #21

Facts v Stereotypes AngryAmish Sep 2016 #19

I lived in Blythe California... quickesst Sep 2016 #23

Yeah sure madokie Sep 2016 #16