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   From: root@127.0.0.1   
      
   Douglas C. Neidermeyer wrote:   
      
   > On 4/27/12 6:24 PM, George Zimmerman Registered Democrat wrote:   
   >> It's the catalytic phrase prior to deployment of the defeated   
   >> liberal weapon of last resort.   
   >>   
   >> "You're a racist!"   
   >>   
   >   
   > Ya' know "racism" is just an emotionally charged term for of   
   > ethnocentrism--   
      
   i don't see how that follows... racism is when someone uses their advantage   
   as a member of a preferred race to subjugate or harm someone else of a race   
   deemed lesser.  anything else is bigotry - not that one is any better than   
   the other.   
      
   > a well established scientific characteristic reflecting   
   > the preference of any group for their own kind-- people, animals, even   
   > insects. People see their kind as best ("We're Number 1") and like to   
   > hang out with them over others. There's loads of research that   
   > demonstrates it.   
      
   is that why our dogs nursed abandoned kittens several times while i was   
   growing up?   
      
   >   
   > One of my favorites had to do with seagulls. A breed of them that has a   
   > mark-- sort of an eyebrow-- above the eye shunned another breed that has   
   > an unmarked face/head.   
   >   
   > Interestingly, when the experimenters drew an eyebrow on a plain-faced   
   > one, they were readily accepted into the eyebrow group...   
      
   wow, now if only we could prove that all humans are as fucking dumb and   
   driven by instinct as much as seagulls, you could apply that to anything   
   but seagulls.   
      
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   keep it better hidden, but for you to expect any different when you come   
   here is outright craziness." - Rhonda Lea Kirk Fries admits that she as as   
   kooky as Emmet!   
      
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