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This article says there’s a racist aspect to brushing your teeth before you go to the dentist. I disagree. I always brush my teeth before I go to the dentist, but it has nothing to do with racism. Why do some people insist on seeing racism everywhere?
Wordpress ^ | March 16, 2023 | Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill)

Posted on 03/16/2023 12:42:15 PM PDT by grundle

This article from the Grio starts out with the following:

Black patients modify speech, dress up to reduce medical bias, survey shows

Black Californians report adjusting their appearance, changing behavior, minimizing questions and signaling to providers that they are educated to reduce chance of discrimination in hospitals and doctors’ offices.

A young mother in California’s Antelope Valley bathes her children and dresses them in neat clothes, making sure they look their very best — at medical appointments. “I brush their teeth before they see the dentist. Just little things like that to protect myself from being treated unfairly,” she told researchers.

I always brush my teeth, take a shower, and put on clean clothes before I go to the dentist, or any other medical appointment.

I don’t see what race has to do with it.

Why do some people insist on seeing racism everywhere?


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1 posted on 03/16/2023 12:42:15 PM PDT by grundle
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To: grundle

This cup of tea is racist


2 posted on 03/16/2023 12:43:12 PM PDT by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: grundle

It has become a contest to see who can come up with a new assertion.

It’s goofy.


3 posted on 03/16/2023 12:44:11 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: grundle

lot of power in that there victimhood

why would they give it up?


4 posted on 03/16/2023 12:46:18 PM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: grundle
“I brush their teeth before they see the dentist."


5 posted on 03/16/2023 12:46:28 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: grundle

They are liberals. The believe everybody should be as miserable as they are...................


6 posted on 03/16/2023 12:46:53 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: grundle

Don’t most people brush their teeth before going to the dentist? Don’t most people bathe or shower before a medical exam? Don’t most people want to sound intelligent and informed when dealing with medical professionals?


7 posted on 03/16/2023 12:47:30 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: grundle

Going to a state college, I also found out that it’s “racisss” to:

- Be on time for class
- Do your assignments as required
- Get decent grades
- Use proper English to communicate
- Have your textbooks purchased and in your possession by the 2nd day of class
- Be white


8 posted on 03/16/2023 12:47:53 PM PDT by fwdude (Society has been fully polarized now, and you have to decide on which pole you want to be found.)
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I always brush my teeth, take a shower, and put on clean clothes EVERY DAY, regardless of what I'm planning to do ...
9 posted on 03/16/2023 12:48:18 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: grundle
There's a reason we called it a tooth brush instead of a teeth brush where I lived in Alabama . . . . .
10 posted on 03/16/2023 12:48:29 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: Steve_Seattle

Don’t most people……..

In the animal world, pigs don’t….


11 posted on 03/16/2023 12:48:42 PM PDT by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable STILL . )
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To: grundle
I always brush my teeth, take a shower, and put on clean clothes before I go to the dentist, or any other medical appointment.

That's "acting white". You should be ashamed of yourself.

/s if needed

12 posted on 03/16/2023 12:48:52 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: grundle

Hell, I brush my teeth even if I’m not going to the dentist!


13 posted on 03/16/2023 12:49:41 PM PDT by CFW (old and retired)
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To: grundle

What they see when looking into the proverbial mirror they see in others.


14 posted on 03/16/2023 12:50:08 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosophers )
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It’s those whitening agents


15 posted on 03/16/2023 12:50:22 PM PDT by william clark (A man who is unwilling to be proven wrong has little regard for truth.)
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To: grundle

I always eat a lot of garlic before going to the dentist. They love it.


16 posted on 03/16/2023 12:50:54 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: grundle

Because California


17 posted on 03/16/2023 12:51:43 PM PDT by Smellin Salt
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To: grundle

That is totally someone trying to get their 15 minutes of “fame”. My mother always gave us a bath, made us scrub our teeth and dressed us nicely when we went to any doctor, be it the family doctor or the dentist. I do so today and I think most people do. Why is this racist? My mom had six kids, was single because my dad died and we live in the projects. Oh and yeah...we are white.


18 posted on 03/16/2023 12:51:47 PM PDT by JoJo354 (We need to get to work, Conservatives!)
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Steven Wright: “My dental hygienist is cute. Every time I visit, I eat a whole package of Oreo cookies while waiting in the lobby. Sometimes she has to cancel the rest of the afternoon’s appointments.”


19 posted on 03/16/2023 12:52:41 PM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: grundle

I was breathing air and that was racist.


20 posted on 03/16/2023 12:53:32 PM PDT by glorgau
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