That wasn't racism

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Post #345,832

by lincoln

8/6/11 11:51:50 AM

That wasn't racism

that was just plain fear of stereotypes.

"Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from."

-- E.L. Doctorow

Things that make you go hmmm. - (beepster) - (50) - July 29, 2011, 09:55:39 AM EDT

Yeah, but - (S1mon_Jester) - (49) - July 29, 2011, 11:33:48 AM EDT

It's never the same - (beepster) - (48) - July 29, 2011, 11:44:59 AM EDT

Re: It's never the same - (hnick) - (47) - July 29, 2011, 12:10:29 PM EDT

No. Commenting - (beepster) - (46) - July 29, 2011, 12:22:53 PM EDT

Are you kidding? Cancel a party? - (hnick) - (1) - July 29, 2011, 12:38:20 PM EDT

One internet win there :-) -NT - (boxley) - July 29, 2011, 01:58:17 PM EDT

Re: No. Commenting - (lincoln) - (43) - July 29, 2011, 05:33:11 PM EDT

funny - (beepster) - (42) - July 29, 2011, 06:46:38 PM EDT

When the Dems "walked" - (lincoln) - (41) - July 29, 2011, 07:00:19 PM EDT

nope - (beepster) - (40) - July 29, 2011, 09:58:07 PM EDT

Re: nope - (lincoln) - (39) - July 30, 2011, 12:25:12 PM EDT

wow. - (beepster) - (38) - July 31, 2011, 01:17:08 PM EDT

Re: wow. - (lincoln) - (1) - July 31, 2011, 05:06:34 PM EDT

gee, are we there yet? - (beepster) - July 31, 2011, 06:45:44 PM EDT

Way to miss the points in the post - (lincoln) - (35) - July 31, 2011, 05:08:35 PM EDT

Its relevant how? - (beepster) - (34) - July 31, 2011, 07:54:41 PM EDT

Where were the TPers in the first 38 years? - (lincoln) - (33) - Aug. 1, 2011, 09:45:12 PM EDT

waiting to get old enuff to collect social security - (boxley) - (1) - Aug. 2, 2011, 09:04:58 AM EDT

That's an interesting aside. - (mmoffitt) - Aug. 2, 2011, 02:11:22 PM EDT

Yep. - (beepster) - (27) - Aug. 2, 2011, 01:59:45 PM EDT

Still won't man up and answer the questions - (lincoln) - (26) - Aug. 2, 2011, 09:36:33 PM EDT

still can't not resort to the default cry of racism. - (beepster) - (25) - Aug. 2, 2011, 09:58:25 PM EDT

Come on, Beep. - (mmoffitt) - (17) - Aug. 4, 2011, 08:26:57 AM EDT

Unpossible! -NT - (Another Scott) - Aug. 4, 2011, 08:30:57 AM EDT

no more than I will admit - (beepster) - (15) - Aug. 4, 2011, 02:34:55 PM EDT

Agreed. But I think you're being a bit disingenuous. - (mmoffitt) - (12) - Aug. 4, 2011, 03:00:09 PM EDT

And I'm in the deep south.. - (beepster) - (11) - Aug. 4, 2011, 08:48:17 PM EDT

That's funny. I don't find that surprising. - (mmoffitt) - (6) - Aug. 5, 2011, 08:26:10 AM EDT

Flyover country is a different world to me - (crazy) - Aug. 5, 2011, 12:29:19 PM EDT

That also includes... - (folkert) - (4) - Aug. 5, 2011, 06:02:17 PM EDT

Aye yi yi. :-( -NT - (Another Scott) - Aug. 5, 2011, 06:08:12 PM EDT

Heh.. my intro to IN-- - (Ashton) - (1) - Aug. 5, 2011, 07:54:30 PM EDT

Bloomington is not Indiana. - (mmoffitt) - Aug. 15, 2012, 10:57:58 AM EDT

That wasn't racism - (lincoln) - Aug. 6, 2011, 11:51:50 AM EDT

No you aren't! - (crazy) - (3) - Aug. 5, 2011, 12:23:01 PM EDT

Well, there is that... - (Another Scott) - (2) - Aug. 5, 2011, 12:28:18 PM EDT

bugs you that the south isnt as racists as the north :-). - (boxley) - Aug. 5, 2011, 02:16:25 PM EDT

Most of Florida isn't really deep south. - (S1mon_Jester) - Aug. 5, 2011, 02:47:33 PM EDT

Re: no more than I will admit - (lincoln) - (1) - Aug. 4, 2011, 08:16:48 PM EDT

Rush...given - (beepster) - Aug. 4, 2011, 08:50:36 PM EDT

if you are not a democrat you are a racist by definition - (boxley) - (6) - Aug. 4, 2011, 09:42:15 AM EDT

Hell Box, you are racist in any case... - (folkert) - (5) - Aug. 4, 2011, 12:49:36 PM EDT

another democrat heard from -NT - (boxley) - (4) - Aug. 4, 2011, 12:59:31 PM EDT

No. I'm a registered Republican. -NT - (folkert) - (3) - Aug. 4, 2011, 07:14:53 PM EDT

racist -NT - (boxley) - (2) - Aug. 4, 2011, 07:34:46 PM EDT

U R doin' it wrong. -NT - (Another Scott) - (1) - Aug. 4, 2011, 07:48:56 PM EDT

ZOMG! U R RITE! -NT - (folkert) - Aug. 4, 2011, 10:19:03 PM EDT

... -NT - (beepster) - (2) - Aug. 2, 2011, 02:00:13 PM EDT

And after all this - (lincoln) - (1) - Aug. 4, 2011, 07:54:39 PM EDT

This was a game played by both sides - (beepster) - Aug. 4, 2011, 08:45:59 PM EDT

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