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#32
10-10-2003, 12:22 PM
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Re: Black Leaders Outraged at Ghettopoly Game
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As for the jokes your fellow-party-goer told, why don't you repeat one or two of them here, and I'll tell you if you think they're funny. [/ QUOTE ] Andy, I didn't quite realize you had this sort of power. John 
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#34
10-10-2003, 12:39 PM
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Re: Black Leaders Outraged at Ghettopoly Game
What can I say, John, you're the best.
Call it poetic license, I guess--though it never occurred to me when typing that it was not a word. If it isn't, it should be, shouldn't it? I met a pimp some months ago, but he didn't play play my table. Actually I am not sure of that, but I had it on pretty good authority that he was a pimp.
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#37
10-10-2003, 01:18 PM
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thank heaven for andyfox
I was about to give up on this forum forever, your post gives me hope. As for some others I've read, Ray--> just because their may be some truth to the "joke" doesn't mean it isn't insensitive. Next time you meet someone in a wheelchair be sure to call them a cripple repeatedly, see how that goes over. To everyone else who's claiming that black leaders need to be less sensitive and encourage their people to stop robbing banks and hitting the crack pipe (and listening to rap, apparently), I'm pretty sure black leaders aren't encouraging their communities to take part in those behaviors, and I'm also pretty sure the people taking part in those behaviors aren't the ones getting offended by this game. As for the rascist asian woman, offensive and stupid doesn't sound like getting it right to me.
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#38
10-10-2003, 01:29 PM
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Re: thank heaven for andyfox
mr. angry, i wasnt condoning the jokes just making the point that these kind of things have a root in fact as well as perception. and your analogy to speaking to someone directly as opposed to making fun of a group is two different things. both can be insensitive. but also what is the amount of sensitivity that we are supposed to abide by. who makes the line for us not to cross. you.
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#39
10-10-2003, 01:35 PM
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Re: Black Leaders Outraged at Ghettopoly Game
john cole,
if you were to relate pimpery to blackery you might seem to be insentive to racery but all of this discussion is in poor taste matter of factery
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#40
10-10-2003, 02:10 PM
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Re: Black Leaders Outraged at Ghettopoly Game
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The difference here is that frugality is actually a virtue, whereas being a crackhead or a pimp or a gangsta is not. Being a banker is an honorable profession, whereas being a drug dealer is not... This is an example of why people need to be taught how to think more logically. [/ QUOTE ] The idea that frugality and banking are virtuous and that pimping and drug dealing are not is actually an assumption, not a fact. This is an example of logical thinking reaching incorrect conclusions because it follows from a faulty premise.
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