Thread: Is this racism?
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Old 10-05-2005, 11:16 AM
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Default Re: Is this racism?

I'm assuming you're talking about the woman in the barbershop, so how do you make the leap from
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Radio like this exposes people's ugliness. If you think about it, there is absolutely no reason she should be uncomfortable with these questions.

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Puttting weak minded people on the spot is always amusing and highly entertaining. Exposing their closed minded attitudes is a valuable public service imo.

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what about this makes the woman "weak minded"? what about this should be her fault? If anything, it exposes the hosts as insensitive assholes. given the context of the questioning, the forum in which the questions were asked and the probable situation the woman was in (living day to day in a historically racially charged neighborhood), there's no reason to believe she should have been comfortable with it at all.
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