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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: miskie on January 12, 2010, 11:12:52 AM
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A primitive has a clue - and will soon be pushing up daisies with comments like this.. Click for linkage (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7446864)
newtothegame Donating Member (1000+ posts) Tue Jan-12-10 12:10 PM
Original message
Has anyone stopped to think that we may have some blame in the Reid "controversy?"
We've been using race and gender as tools of political convenience for years (ie just look at the Democratic primaries in 2008), and I think we have to take responsibility for the high frequency use of these "cards" in today's environment. Same reason why "Nazi" means absolutely nothing to the average citizen anymore; we've all been using it to describe anything and everything we don't like for years, and we've totally wasted the word of any true meaning in today's world.
Crickets so far in this thread
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They ain't gonna touch that.
KC
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Truth is like wolfbane to the Lycancrats.
:evillaugh:
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Typical of libs as we have seen by the trolls that pass through here...they are trying to be obtuse and take a different meaning from the op then what it was.
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county worker (1000+ posts) Tue Jan-12-10 12:22 PM
Response to Original message
4. Collective guilt is a bid thing here at DU. I prefer to stand up to my wrong doings and not those of
Edited on Tue Jan-12-10 12:23 PM by county worker
every other DUer here. My karma, good or bad, is made by what I do, not by what others do. There is no such thing as collective karma just as there is no such thing as collective guilt.
Now if county worker could just extrapolate that thought out to other things .... like say ..... Oh I don't know .... government entitlement programs.
KC
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newtothegame
Has anyone stopped to think....
Just that alone on Skin's island is an immediate thread killer.
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left coaster (339 posts) Tue Jan-12-10 12:29 PM
Response to Reply #4
5. My thoughts exactly..
..though many folks do buy into collective guilt.. I will not.
White guilt played a big part in some Dems voting for The Won. imho
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Without "collective guilt" there is no leftism
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Every response that followed the OP was non-sensical.
I don't think the DU itself has any "blame" for what Reid said. I don't think they influence him any way in the slightest. I do agree with the OP that the race card has been played to near-exhaustion. Screaming "Racist!" at every teapartier certainly dilutes the term. It invites eye-rolls.
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county worker (1000+ posts) Tue Jan-12-10 12:22 PM
Response to Original message
4. Collective guilt is a bid thing here at DU. I prefer to stand up to my wrong doings and not those of
Edited on Tue Jan-12-10 12:23 PM by county worker
every other DUer here. My karma, good or bad, is made by what I do, not by what others do. There is no such thing as collective karma just as there is no such thing as collective guilt
Tell that to the last few survivors of Nazi Germany, asshat!
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Common sense? In the DUmp? :ohnoes: