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Not appropriate. The comment was extremely fair.

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just jokes blarg. lets all marinate instead of fight brothers [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

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Okay, my brotha. The following isn't directed to you or anyone specifically, by the way, but is just about the way a thread like this is shaping up. I knew the reactions would be sharp and over-defensive.

Funny thing is, this is a comment about social courtesies, which are mild things, but questioning people on these issues can make them go nuts.

That's reason enough to consider doing them right instead of brushing them off; all the poor white dudes feeling sorry for themselves because they might be construed as racists for social gaffes should be at least as indulgent with others as themselves, considering how easily hurt their feelings seem to be. People who don't like being thought of as racists should easily be able to understand that nobody wants to be approached in a racial fashion instead of just as a person, without having race even enter into it. A little courtesy is no effort at all and well worth it to prevent others from feeling just as bad as you might feel when caught out.