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Why do ghetto people look, act and sound like morons?
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Why do ghetto people look, act and sound like morons?
I've wondered this.
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brainiac3397
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Why do ghetto people look, act and sound like morons?
I've wondered why you've wondered so much.
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(06-14-2013 08:02 AM)Potato Wrote: watch the fuq out, we've got an "intellectual" over here.
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Sunbourn
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RE: Why do ghetto people look, act and sound like morons?
Too many ghetto people threads to compute a response.
Who am I? Who are YOU?
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Why do ghetto people look, act and sound like morons?
MAYBE BECAUSE MOST OF THEM ARE
Hello, traveler.
This is an ancient account I have not used in a long time. My views have changed much in the intervening months and years.
Nonetheless, I refuse to clean it up. Pretending that I've held my current views since the beginning of time is what we in the industry call a lie. Asking people to do so contributes to moralistic self-loathing. "See, those people have nothing damning! I do! I'm truly vile!"
Because you can never be a good person with a single blemish on the moral record, I thought that simply entertaining some thoughts made me irredeemable. Though I don't care for his writing style, William Faulkner presents a good counterexample. He went from being a typical Southern racist to supporting the civil rights movement. These days we'd yell at him for that, probably.
People are allowed to change their views.
Nevertheless, this period of my life has informed some of how I am today. In good ways and bad ways. To purge it would be to do a disservice to history. Perhaps it will not make anyone sympathetic, but it may help someone understand.
If, after reading all this, you still decide to use the post above as evidence that I am evil today, ask yourself if you have never disagreed with the moral code you now follow. In all likelihood you did, at some point. If some questions are verboten, and the answer is "how dare you ask that," don't expect your ideological opponents to ever change their minds.
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Why do ghetto people look, act and sound like morons?
It's a cultural difference. Similar to how people in rural areas can seem moronic. The simple bit of it is this: if you live in a crowded area where you have to be worried about getting stabbed, raped, killed, or jumped, sounding and dressing like a refined WASP when making conversation isn't going to be on your priority list.
"If you think you know what the hell is going on, you're probably full of shit." - Robert Anton Wilson
(This post was last modified: 05-04-2013 12:25 AM by Ahab.)
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Why do ghetto people look, act and sound like morons?
I meant in my classes. The ghetto people and ghetto wanna-be's.
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RE: Why do ghetto people look, act and sound like morons?
the simple answer is because they are. People say not to be racist, but they are the kind of people that make that difficult when everything the only white guy they've met in the past 5 years says is racist to them.
The less you try to control things, the less you need to.
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"free speech under the constitution only guarantees the government won't stop him saying it and does not guarantee his right to say things and have no consequences at all as a result. also i completely doubt that he is motivated solely by "i'm saying it because i can" and is probably motivated by a more shitheady motive like "i think it's funny to annoy people and Rustle Le Jimmies and is just hiding behind the first amendment to try to deflect any consequences or make you realize that being allowed to annoy people is a superior moral right. you can still disdain someone for doing things for dumbarse wankery purposes and you have evne more right to ban and insult them for it" ~Trar's friend about Potato.
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RE: Why do ghetto people look, act and sound like morons?
(05-08-2013 11:34 PM)Heil_Kaiba8921 Wrote: the simple answer is because they are. People say not to be racist, but they are the kind of people that make that difficult when everything the only white guy they've met in the past 5 years says is racist to them.
I have read that 5 times now. And it still doesn't make sense.
I'm a girl ffffeck
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Why do ghetto people look, act and sound like morons?
Mexican doing it. Wants to be a nigger. And the white students are supporting this ghetto behavior, some even acting like it themselves. Listening to the music and socializing with them.
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