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Originally Posted by Leonidas  That's why I requently say it will be surprising if Obama wins.
HOWEVER!
The real question is: Should we passively allow racism to be exploited, or should it be identified and discussed with the ultimate goals being to expose it for the damage it does to the country and to people and to condemn it and make it shameful? By what intellectual standard can racism in any form be deemed legitimate? If it isn't legitimate then why not hold those who employ it (either blatantly, or subtly) up to ridicule? |
my answer would be that any edge will get exploited by people who want the person to win (the person running for office may not be happy about those tactics).
and some people can pick racism out of anything that happens to them, even if there isn't any.
the sad part is that we have to have this discussion in the first place.