Hmmm. “Exclusion” is different than “different”. It’s a stronger term and I’d agree that if it’s really one group being “excluded” from the rest it may be reasonable to infer (i.e., an assumption as to what was meant is being made) that the reason for the exclusion is because something is bad about the excluded group. But I don’t see just noting that one group is different similarly implies they are inferior. It could equally be seen to imply they are superior.

“By the way, dropout polls, dropout surveys, indicate that dropouts think just like everyone else. We’re not like successful college graduates. We think just like everybody else.”

You read it right, but I can’t agree with your statement. If the statement implies the exclusion of a single group from the rest of society, I think that carries the implication also of inferiority.

Hmm, any Republicans forward some Email lately? Oh yes, sure, here we go: “Diann Jones, a vice chairman of the Collin County Republican Party, has apologized for an e-mail that some local judges denounced as racist.” Hooray! As is usual in such cases, this GOP leader from this Dallas exurb is denying any racist intent in sending this email bitching about the “black house” where Obama is plotting against Americans, an email she sent to all the Republicans in “local Republican clubs,” because the REAL crime is that one of the recipients, a local Republican judge, is kind of tired of his party being a bunch of idiot racists, so he sent it to a bunch of other judges, who will HMMMM pass judgment on Diann Jones, in some Texas form of justice, such as a mild rebuke?

Where we’re at:

So, we’ve had the GOP county leader gal who sent out the “Obama Bucks” watermelon-chicken food stamps, the Southern California suburban Republican mayor who sent out the hilarious White House-watermelon garden email, the Florida state committee-woman GOP gal who sent out that “So how did black people travel in airplanes to Obama’s inauguration when they couldn’t get out of New Orleans during Katrina?” email comedy, the Republican mayor in South Carolina forwarding his “just out of curiosity” musings about the Muslim Barack Obama being maybe a character in the Bible (the Devil, in fact), and the Republican mayor of some Georgia town typing a hilarious Facebook status message suggesting Barack Obama should give the Queen of England some typical black-person snacks such as cigarettes and malt liquor.

It’s almost like there’s a pattern. No worries though. I’m sure Boss Limbaugh will rein in this considerable amount of shitty racism. Any day now.

(African-Americans)<******************(Everyone else)

At the risk of arguing the inarguable (particularly when you’ve been gracious to acknowledge it’s a matter of interpretations), if I read your equation right that’s equating different with inferior and I’d see that view as being in the eye of the beholder.

http://www.oliverwillis.com/2009/03/24/tea-parties-get-their-own-theme-song/

”http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/05/02/the-role-of-the-black-conservative-in-america/

Fair enough, Parthy, but I honestly wasn’t trying to push it.

<a href=”http://www.oliverwillis.com/2009/02/19/michael-steeles-minstrel-show/”Michael steele’s Minstrel Show

“Sure, its possible. But the ones that pop up are almost always <a href=”http://www.oliverwillis.com/2009/03/24/tea-parties-get-their-own-theme-song/”minstrel acts – Ken Blackwell, Michael Steele, JC Watts, etc.”

<a href=”http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/05/02/the-role-of-the-black-conservative-in-america/”The Role of the Black Conservative in America

I think toady minstrel is pushing it, but I’m as opposed to that as you are.

I’d say there’s an argument for either of our interpretations. What’s inarguable in his comment, though, is this.

(African-Americans)<******************(Everyone else)

Like the graceful way Obama explained Sotomayor’s Latina woman comment, I suppose, saying she would’ve restated it had she had the chance. Except now we know she made essentially the exact same comment back in 1998.

So when Obama is bullshitting us, at least it’s graceful bullshitting.

That is because it doesn’t say what OW’s headline makes it out to say. OW puts up inflammatory lies to bolster the points he tries to make, leading to a credibility gap.

How do you come up with zingers like “when you got up today.”

Your the comic god of OW.com.

Thank you for brightening our day with quips that would make Dennis Miller look like a dunce. Really, I’m serious.

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Her upbringing and her background influences her decisions. Sam said the exact same thing.

I pissed Duros off. MY day is complete.

Sadly, no.

That seems to be the case. Tell me where I’m wrong?

Sometime after you got up today.

No answer to my question from him, only insults. As usual.

Duros World: White conservative says something racist….it’s racist. Anyone that isn’t a white conservative guy says something racist…..it is racist say that what they said is racist. The problem is that libs are obsessed with race. So much so that it clouds their ability to judge fairly. See: Sotomayor.

That seems to be the case. Tell me where I’m wrong?

Click the links, man.

The New York Times reports that a coalition of heavyweight conservative groups has signed a letter pressuring Senate Republicans to filibuster Sonia Sotomayor. The organizer of the pressure campaign — which has angered Senate GOP leaders — is identified as one Manuel Miranda, whom the paper only describes as a “former adviser on judicial issues to former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist.”

Anybody wanna take a shot at it ?