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To: BackInBlack
"You're trying to talk your way around the fact that the original poster called it racism, which is the point to which I referred."

Your post #94: "I wonder why the original post in this thread puts a racial spin on it."

I don't consider an accurate accusation of racism as 'putting a racial spin on it.' In the Simpson case, I don't see the story as racist, at all. In the other instances, you certainly won't get my agreement that the poster was engaging in 'racial spin'. I see a considerable difference between a legitimate accusation of racism and putting a 'racial spin' on a story.

If I failed to make myself clear, then I offer my apologies. If you're looking for a fight, go play with the other children and leave me alone.

100 posted on 10/29/2005 5:04:43 PM PDT by YHAOS
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To: YHAOS

"I don't consider an accurate accusation of racism as 'putting a racial spin on it."

I meant "spin" without a pejorative connotation, which the word doesn't necessarily have; therefore, as I meant it, raising the issue of racism, accurate or not, is by definition to give it a racial spin.

However, in this case, my point was that the charge of racism was indeed inaccurate. You seemed to agree, when you said Condi's photo was doctored because she's a Republican, not because she's black. So I'm not sure what, exactly, you're arguing about.


101 posted on 10/29/2005 8:10:19 PM PDT by BackInBlack ("The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.")
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