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In reply to the discussion: Charlie Daniels is dead. [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)48. And I'm not talking about him at all. I'm talking about
righteous leaps to judgement without considering whether what is despised in him is also in oneself. Bias and hostility against whole groups is wrong. And stupid. Period.
I just read an OP pushing the imagined virtuous belief that white women are toxic, not just some by their behaviors, but all by virtue of their race, so you can see where I'm coming from.
Race hate is toxic. No acceptable targets and no acceptable excuses for anyone, not excepting those aiming it at themselves.
Racism:
prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular racial or ethnic group,
the belief that different races possess distinct characteristics, abilities, or qualities, especially so as to distinguish them as inferior or superior to one another.
a doctrine or political program based on the assumption of racism and designed to execute its principles
prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular racial or ethnic group,
the belief that different races possess distinct characteristics, abilities, or qualities, especially so as to distinguish them as inferior or superior to one another.
a doctrine or political program based on the assumption of racism and designed to execute its principles
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His early music was good, and he was a good musician (played on Dylan albums, etc.). n/t
blitzen
Jul 2020
#8
Later in life Charlie Daniels was the result of right wing media consumption.
tenderfoot
Jul 2020
#9
Ray Wylie Hubbard to the Devil: "I thought your solo was the better of the two"...
blitzen
Jul 2020
#13
It is good that we have those so much wiser here to show us how we should think, is it not?
Tipperary
Jul 2020
#55
Him: "in the future Darwinism will be looked upon as we now look upon the flat earth theory"
USALiberal
Jul 2020
#54