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Well, I think that is unavoidable.  And the request for a diary was actually in reponse to some nut I met from East Germany who hated Russians, not "Will Ireland elect a black man?"  

It's a subject that is IMPOSSIBLE to discuss without people getting offended, but I've decided NOT discussing it can't be the answer.  Actually, I've very little concept of the situation in Europe.  Everyone has a different view of things.

Signed,
White girl who is dating black boy and suddenly realizing it's all messier than I was led to believe by my comfortable liberal progressive open-minded self-congratulatory world-view...

Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

by poemless on Mon Dec 1st, 2008 at 05:59:12 PM EST
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Is race even the right frame for that?
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Mon Dec 1st, 2008 at 06:07:00 PM EST
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For the German nut?  I don't know.  Since, uhm, race is a made up thing to begin with...  But it follows a pattern of 1) people with a history of disenfranchisement in ur neighborhood acting like criminalz, 2) who should go back to where they came from because we don't like their whole scene, and 3) whose bad behavior is often linked to genetics or ethnicity.  The last part I notice a lot when talking about Russians, even coming from Russians...  Anyway, I had this image of Europe as lightyears more tolerant than the US, but this German guy was just actively hating all Russians in a way that made me think I wouldn't want to be in a room alone with him if I were one.  

Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
by poemless on Mon Dec 1st, 2008 at 06:19:59 PM EST
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poemless: It's a subject that is IMPOSSIBLE to discuss without people getting offended, but I've decided NOT discussing it can't be the answer.  ... Everyone has a different view of things.

agree 100%.

Truth unfolds in time through a communal process.

by marco (cowannar at gmail punkt com) on Mon Dec 1st, 2008 at 06:24:09 PM EST
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It's a subject that is IMPOSSIBLE to discuss without people getting offended

May we soon enter the 22nd century, where humans might have overcome that stupidity, at least if Uhura is right.



Gemach, gemach

by Martin (weiser.mensch(at)googlemail.com) on Mon Dec 1st, 2008 at 09:31:59 PM EST
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