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In reply to the discussion: Met a 70-something white man today [View all]Mr.Bill
(24,334 posts)23. I'm 70 and I'm as white as Opie Taylor.
I used to have people of a similar demographic just walk up to me in public places and start talking to me as if we were both at the Trump rally last night. I would quickly inform them that they don't want to go there with me. I tell them I spend at least eight hours a day studying and discussing politics, and I will make a fool out of them in short order. There hasn't been one of them who didn't walk away immediately.
I say this used to happen because it hasn't happened since a day in early November in 2020.
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I think that Republicans, in every State of the Union, are hoping they get 1 more cycle before they implode.
OAITW r.2.0
Mar 26
#27
I guess from your post you had to stay and take the abuse to finish your job. The geezer must have really
mitch96
Mar 26
#13
Sorry you have to put up with that stuff. At least you run into fellow liberals, as well.
electric_blue68
Mar 28
#44
On rare occasions as a white woman I've had racist comments said to me by men...
electric_blue68
Mar 28
#45