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  1. Denny Crane

    Denny Crane It's not even loaded! Staff Member Administrator

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    From the right wing Slate.com:

    http://www.slate.com/articles/news_...tics_are_destroying_the_democratic_party.html

    “There’s Been a Slightly Hysterical Tone About Race”
    Author Mark Lilla thinks Democrats’ focus on identity politics is destroying the party.

    On this week’s episode of my podcast, I Have to Ask, I spoke with Mark Lilla, a professor of the humanities at Columbia University and the author of a new book, The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics. Lilla is known for his writing on history and political philosophy; in his latest book, he pins many of the troubles of the Democratic Party on the rise of identity politics. He argues that Americans have become hostile to the way the left speaks and writes and that “by the 1980s [identity politics] had given way to a pseudo-politics of self-regard and increasingly narrow and exclusionary self-definition that is now cultivated in our colleges and universities.” “The main result,” he writes, “has been to turn young people back onto themselves, rather than turning them outward toward the wider world.”
     
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  2. MarAzul

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    Oh I think you got it. I simply suggested an attitude adjustment might be in order since you seem to feel a need to discuss racialism, especially where it does not need to be a focal point.
     
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    or pornography as our former supreme court justice stewart was able to help with some needed interpretation here-"I know it when I see it".
     
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    barfo triggered obsessive commie pinko boomer maniac Staff Member Global Moderator

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    Totally agree, no one dies from pornography. Although a few of us have gone blind.

    barfo
     
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    i've heard anecdotes of fur in odd places, hands down more disturbing than simple blindness that might be more easily explained away. at least as a contributing factor.
     
  6. bodyman5000 and 1

    bodyman5000 and 1 Lions, Tigers, Me, Bears

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    I'd rather have a werewolf hand than be blind.
     
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    but one often leads 'tother
     
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    bodyman5000 and 1 Lions, Tigers, Me, Bears

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    No way, teen wolf got all the girls. Maybe one hand would be enough.
     
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    BlazerCaravan Hug a Bigot... to Death

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    http://thehill.com/homenews/adminis...uring-hurricane-because-i-thought-tv-ratings/

     
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    theprunetang Shaedon "Deadly Nightshade" Sharpe is HIM

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    He wanted Rasta to know. Loud and clear.
     
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    theprunetang Shaedon "Deadly Nightshade" Sharpe is HIM

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    It's like he hired the entire staff of The Onion to be his speech writer.
     
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    Don't give him any ideas.
     
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    What's your definition of fascism? Lots of people don't even know what it is but spout it. The truth is we already have fascism in this country and it's been rising and Rising.
     
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    often capitalized: a political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition

    There is the definition. People throw the word around too much and water it down. When I think of fascism I think of Nazi Germany and we are no where near that
     
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    Oh I am embarrassed my countrymen care so little about the rights of all Citizens, even the Sheriff you hate. You bitch daily about being abused, but you care not another man is denied his constitutional protection.
     
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    bodyman5000 and 1 Lions, Tigers, Me, Bears

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    I read that there was a Supreme Court decision about this type of thing. Still don't like it.
     

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