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Peaceful Dave's avatar

Thank you for posting that link, I had never seen it. It occurs to me that I think I told a similar story about me being the only white person in Flaming Sally's in Macon Georgia on a Saturday night in around 1980. No Planet of the Apes but the same, "you know what, they were cool with me." Monday at the bid whist table in the break room someone who had seen me there told everyone what a terrible dancer I am, and they all laughed. That was cool too. Context, you could say it was a woke moment for Rogan. A demonized subculture that was OK with him being there. Every white person needs that experience.

Your last paragraph belongs in a picture frame on a wall where it will be reread every day. For that chance we will understand each other better.

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Chris Fox's avatar

I believe in a zero tolerance approach to bigotry and believe that we need to be vigilant. That doesn't mean we need to be hysterical. The SJWs are hysterical.

I find it hard to get worked up over some shock jock on Spotify or a writer of children's books making a mild remark, I have a little rule I follow: if you need to infer or embellish at all to see the bigotry then just forget about it, because there is such an abundance of the real thing, no embellishment required. And a lot of it is physical.

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