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Originally Posted by Mikeuk
Bear you really are very odd. I'm getting worried about you.
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Thanks!
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Why have you never responded to my hunch (expressed two or three times) that you were an Archie Bunker type who suffered a Damascene conversion to leftist imbecility?
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Because it’s totally wrong!
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Originally Posted by Mikeuk
I'm told that it sometimes accompanies the male menopause.
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I have that pleasure yet to come!
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You sound soooooooh much like one of those ex-smokers who has become a tedious health fascist.
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I understand the parallel you’re trying to establish, but you couldn’t be more wrong. I’ve never experienced a “Road to Damascus Conversion”, what I am I always have been as regards race and racists.
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However as far as I'm aware none of my ancestors were in the habit of doing a turn on the bongo drums or making a curry with a flatulance coefficient of Hiroshima proportions. Sorry, but such people, wonderful as they may be, don't form part of my identity or heritage.
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But of course they do! We all share common ancestry!
Look, quite apart from a strange belief that there is something wonderful about an absence of melamin in a persons skin, or the form of music they enjoy, or the diet they are accustomed to, the thing that matters is not the word black, brown, yellow, African, Oriental, whatever that precedes the word man, the important word is man.
Shakespeare illustrated this point in the Merchant with the famous speech by Shylock.
Replace “Jew” with “African” of Indian or whatever and the message is the same, a man is a man is a man.
Just to remind (or possibly enlighten) you here’s the relevant part of the play.
“Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
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Originally Posted by Mikeuk
Isn't this all rather a silly affectation on your part?
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No, it isn’t. It’s me illustrating the difference between decency, and bigoted foolish racial hatred.