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Ardent15 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 11:49 PM Original message |
Racism and classism go together |
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imdjh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 12:02 AM Response to Original message |
1. Sidhartha Gautama supposedly said that nations were nothing but castes on a larger scale. |
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vixengrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 12:10 AM Response to Original message |
2. Race war, class war, culture war--all often distractions. |
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imdjh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 12:24 AM Response to Reply #2 |
6. I think that if you could hear inside people's heads, it would be enlightening. |
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Confusious (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 12:17 AM Response to Original message |
3. So if I hate rich people |
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Honeycombe8 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 12:23 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Alec Baldwin? Obama? Buffett? Ted Kennedy? Swayze? You hate ALL rich people? |
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anonymous171 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 12:29 AM Response to Reply #4 |
10. They compromise only a fraction of the rich. The rest of them are absolute scum. |
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Electric Monk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 01:52 AM Response to Reply #10 |
27. -om |
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Honeycombe8 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 07:40 AM Response to Reply #10 |
30. You are absolutely wrong. I've known scumbags who are poor, and good people |
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ShortnFiery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 01:43 PM Response to Reply #10 |
39. +1 The empathetic philanthropists are a distinct minority of the filthy rich. eom |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 12:48 AM Response to Reply #4 |
13. it isn't about being "good" or "bad" as individuals. |
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Honeycombe8 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 07:42 AM Response to Reply #13 |
31. Yes. $ has nothing to do with it. Most wealthy people in America worked for their $. |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 01:39 PM Response to Reply #31 |
36. "Most wealthy people in America worked for their $." |
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Honeycombe8 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 05:15 PM Response to Reply #36 |
44. I work for wealthy people. They work harder and longer than most poor people ever have. |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 09:35 PM Response to Reply #44 |
49. you know all about "rich people" from your experience with one "rich person", |
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earth mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 05:38 PM Response to Reply #31 |
47. Many of those rich people made their money by exploiting others. |
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Confusious (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 01:01 AM Response to Reply #4 |
15. Do I hate all of them? no. |
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Honeycombe8 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 07:45 AM Response to Reply #15 |
32. A blanket "I hate rich people" is just another form of discrimination. |
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ShortnFiery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 01:42 PM Response to Reply #32 |
38. No, you can't discriminate against RICH people - they will buy your competition off. |
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Honeycombe8 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 05:18 PM Response to Reply #38 |
45. I feel sorry for you. Your jealousy of others will eat you alive, if you let it. |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 09:36 PM Response to Reply #32 |
50. Such god-awful sick bullshit. |
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imdjh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 12:25 AM Response to Reply #3 |
7. That works for you? |
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Confusious (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 01:05 AM Response to Reply #7 |
17. I wa giving a simplistic answer |
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imdjh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 12:27 AM Response to Reply #3 |
8. the op says "go together" not "are the same" nt |
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Confusious (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 01:09 AM Response to Reply #8 |
18. Go together..... |
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imdjh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 01:15 AM Response to Reply #18 |
19. Well, he did say opposite sides of the same coin so I guess you're right. |
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Confusious (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 01:24 AM Response to Reply #19 |
20. There may be alot more to racism, then "color of skin" |
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imdjh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 01:43 AM Response to Reply #20 |
23. damn you're old |
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Confusious (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 01:45 AM Response to Reply #23 |
25. No, |
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Honeycombe8 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 07:55 AM Response to Reply #25 |
33. You are wrong, Grasshopper. Industry has done that. Not "rich people," per se. |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 01:44 PM Response to Reply #33 |
40. pious bs. |
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Honeycombe8 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 05:21 PM Response to Reply #40 |
46. LOL! It always easier to attack the poster, when the facts can't be refuted. |
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Honeycombe8 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 12:24 AM Response to Original message |
5. Hmmm. I'm not sure about that. I'll have to ponder that one. nt |
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TCJ70 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 12:27 AM Response to Original message |
9. I'm not sure about that, but... |
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TannerBoyle (46 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 12:31 AM Response to Original message |
11. That's the most indepth analysis I've ever read. Thank you. |
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Lagomorph (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 12:52 AM Response to Reply #11 |
14. Truely stellar... |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 01:05 AM Response to Reply #14 |
16. . |
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Lagomorph (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 01:37 AM Response to Reply #16 |
22. Ahhhh, a thread with substance.... |
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espiral (143 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 12:42 AM Response to Original message |
12. I'll give this a rec. |
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Confusious (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 01:28 AM Response to Reply #12 |
21. and what happens when he says |
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anonymous171 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 01:44 AM Response to Reply #21 |
24. Wut? nt |
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Confusious (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 01:47 AM Response to Reply #24 |
26. Karl Marx |
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imdjh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 02:03 AM Response to Reply #21 |
28. are you cereal? |
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KillCapitalism (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 02:59 AM Response to Original message |
29. About time someone realized that. |
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nemo137 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 07:59 AM Response to Reply #29 |
34. On an abstract philosophical level, maybe. |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 01:47 PM Response to Reply #34 |
41. not if the "non-white" = japanese-american, for example. their ses indicators = |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 01:49 PM Response to Reply #34 |
42. Tell that to the people living in the Appalachians. Or the people living along coastlines that get |
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blindpig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 08:09 AM Response to Original message |
35. Racism is the tool of classism |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 01:51 PM Response to Reply #35 |
43. As is sexism and homophobia. |
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ShortnFiery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 01:40 PM Response to Original message |
37. When you hit the multi-millionaire range there's only ONE color/race and it's GREEN. |
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La Lioness Priyanka (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-19-09 05:39 PM Response to Original message |
48. they are seperate thing though and one can exist without the other |
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