OnePercenter
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- Apr 10, 2013
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It appears that you are advocating for government force in some situations when you are sympathetic to the cause or beliefs of the person being excluded from services, but you're okay with government sitting on its ass in other situations.
I am within my right to refuse to serve fat people. But, fat black people are protected by government force.
Amazon sells a pink (!) baseball cap with the words printed on it TRUMP 2020. I'm seriously considering getting one and wearing it in public; remember, women get to wear hats inside, though men aren't supposed to. So I could wear it anywhere ----
What do people think of that? I can remember when people wore "I Like Ike" buttons in church. Political expression just was not viewed as a problem---it was considered mildly humorous. Now women get on TV and say a MAGA hat is "triggering," whatever that means. Upsetting, I guess. I wish I had a dollar for every time someone shocked or upset me by what they said or did; I'd be a rich lady. Now I guess people are supposed to walk on tiptoe, and in fact, that's what we're all doing. There are NO political bumper stickers anymore: at least not in Maryland, I can tell you. How much trouble will I get into if I wear my pink Trump hat? Might be fun to try it and see.
These days everybody is wound too tight. It's just like this Northam thing. Who cares really? I understand that Republicans are just trying to rub it in Democrats faces, but racism it's not.
Back in the 70's and 80's, we all made jokes about race and ethnicity. We all had a sense of humor at the time. It wasn't that offensive. But now they are bringing up something that happened 30 years ago when environment was not as tense, and judging it using todays values.
Look what liberalism has done to this country. You can't joke about anything, you can't laugh at everything, and you can't even wear a certain Fn hat if you desire. Liberalism is destroying this country.
Are you saying that hate speech was more social accepted in the 70's and 80's than it is today? Seems some of us have grown in those that didn't vote for the guy that condones grabbing women by the pussy and hiring illegal aliens.
Not at all, its just that people used to have a sense of humor. I lived back then, and the voice of my generation was Don Rickles. He would never be accepted today by millennials, that's probably why he keeled over dead in the prime of life.
It went on all the time. It was an ice breaker. Black guys would come back to work from a holiday and ask us if we had a "white" Christmas? I remember one place where I worked, two black girls worked in the shipping office upstairs. For Thanksgiving, our company bought us all frozen turkeys. So I seen one of the shipping girls outside making her way to the stairs with two turkeys. Of course I knew she was bringing one back for her coworker and friend. But just as a joke, I asked her how come she got two turkeys and I only got one? She smiled and said "because I'm black!"
Today you can't do any of those kinds of things.
Wow! Racism as an icebreaker, now I've heard it all.