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The New DU. Reply #6: Don't be clueless! Environmentalists are not the racist type.
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Divernan
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Mon Dec-20-04 10:14 AM
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| 6. Don't be clueless! Environmentalists are not the racist type. |
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I know a lot of environmentalists - I'm one myself - and I have never known a single one of them to utter a racist remark. On the other hand, the war in Iraq seems to be bringing the racists out of the woodwork - I have not heard such hatefilled racist remarks (against arabs and muslims) since the Klu Klux Klan glory days of the 50's-60's.
And what are the "conservative beliefs about us" that condemning racism will reinforce? That we (proud liberals) find racism the despicable hidey-hole of insecure whites? That's a belief I WANT to reinforce.
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