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Re: Buses & Beggers [Re: Vote against/for...]
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 11 Nov 2002 08:29:12 GMT
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John,
You are being obtuse again.
Scott A
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur writes:
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> > > Somehow DWB has become the example here, which wasn't the initial assertion.
> > > Initially, Scott asserted that success in America is somehow assured if your
> > > skin color was a particular shade.
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> > Nope. I inferred that white folks have more "freedoms".
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> Well, you inferred wrongly. They have the same "freedoms" everyone else has.
> There is one law for everyone.
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> > That view is not "class warfare". That view is not ?racism?. It?s a fact.
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> Give me an example of an American law that grants whites more freedoms than
> blacks.
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> > When I was in Seattle a couple of months ago I notices 2 things:
> > 1. Beggars tended to be black [and there was a lot of them compared to the >UK].
> > 2. Buses appeared to be disproportionately used by non-whites.
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> > Why was that John? Are white folks genetically inhibited from using public
> > transport or begging? Should I have waited for a bus for white folks to come
> > along?
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> Sounds like an economic issue to me as I already stated.
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> -John
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| (...) Well, you inferred wrongly. They have the same "freedoms" everyone else has. There is one law for everyone. (...) Give me an example of an American law that grants whites more freedoms than blacks. (...) Sounds like an economic issue to me as (...) (22 years ago, 11-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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