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Has anyone stopped to think that we may have some blame in the Reid "controversy
« on: January 12, 2010, 11:12:52 AM »
A primitive has a clue - and will soon be pushing up daisies with comments like this.. Click for linkage

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newtothegame  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)       Tue Jan-12-10 12:10 PM
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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.

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Re: Has anyone stopped to think that we may have some blame in the Reid "controversy
« Reply #1 on: January 12, 2010, 11:15:45 AM »
They ain't gonna touch that.

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Re: Has anyone stopped to think that we may have some blame in the Reid "controversy
« Reply #2 on: January 12, 2010, 11:19:16 AM »
Truth is like wolfbane to the Lycancrats.

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Re: Has anyone stopped to think that we may have some blame in the Reid "controversy
« Reply #3 on: January 12, 2010, 11:31:10 AM »
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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Re: Has anyone stopped to think that we may have some blame in the Reid "controversy
« Reply #4 on: January 12, 2010, 11:37:49 AM »
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county worker  (1000+ posts)      Tue Jan-12-10 12:22 PM
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4. Collective guilt is a bid thing here at DU. I prefer to stand up to my wrong doings and not those of
 
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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.

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Re: Has anyone stopped to think that we may have some blame in the Reid "controversy
« Reply #5 on: January 12, 2010, 11:46:46 AM »
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Has anyone stopped to think....

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Re: Has anyone stopped to think that we may have some blame in the Reid "controversy
« Reply #6 on: January 12, 2010, 11:58:09 AM »
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left coaster (339 posts)           Tue Jan-12-10 12:29 PM
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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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Re: Has anyone stopped to think that we may have some blame in the Reid "controversy
« Reply #7 on: January 12, 2010, 12:10:47 PM »
Without "collective guilt" there is no leftism
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Re: Has anyone stopped to think that we may have some blame in the Reid "controversy
« Reply #8 on: January 12, 2010, 12:20:34 PM »
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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Re: Has anyone stopped to think that we may have some blame in the Reid "controversy
« Reply #9 on: January 13, 2010, 12:21:09 AM »
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county worker  (1000+ posts)      Tue Jan-12-10 12:22 PM
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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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Re: Has anyone stopped to think that we may have some blame in the Reid "controversy
« Reply #10 on: January 13, 2010, 12:29:43 AM »
Common sense? In the DUmp?  :ohnoes:
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