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[[Administrivia/TheTropingCode You'll try to use a metaphor 'I can understand, eh?']] Okay, I'll bite. To start with, that's not a
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[[Administrivia/TheTropingCode You\'ll try to use a metaphor \'I can understand\', eh?]] Okay, I\'ll bite. To start with, that\'s not a \"metaphor\". It\'s an analogy, \'\'and\'\' a poor one.

Either the shooter IS a Muslim or she isn\'t. It\'s an actual religion.

Whether or not the Starbucks employees actually hated those two Black people is irrelevant to whether or not their actions mistreated two Black people. Problem is, you--like many people--think people need to be card-carrying bigots to actually be racist. They don\'t.

And accuse us anything you like. That doesn\'t change the fact that what you are doing is literally downplaying an \'\'\'accusation\'\'\' of racism; your argument is \'\'specifically\'\' what the sentence means. So it doesn\'t really matter what you accuse but then try to backpedal with \"but that\'d be an asshole move\".
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[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Administrivia/TheTropingCode You'll try to use a metaphor 'I can understand, eh?']] Okay, I'll bite. To start with, that's not a
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[[Administrivia/TheTropingCode You\'ll try to use a metaphor \'I can understand, eh?\']] Okay, I\'ll bite. To start with, that\'s not a \"metaphor\". It\'s an analogy, \'\'and\'\' a poor one.

Either the shooter IS a Muslim or she isn\'t. It\'s an actual religion.

Whether or not the Starbucks employees actually hated those two Black people is irrelevant to whether or not their actions mistreated two Black people. Problem is, you--like many people--think people need to be card-carrying bigots to actually be racist. They don\'t.

And accuse us anything you like. That doesn\'t change the fact that what you are doing is literally downplaying an \'\'\'accusation\'\'\' of racism; your argument is \'\'specifically\'\' what the sentence means. So it doesn\'t really matter what you accuse but then try to backpedal with \"but that\'d be an asshole move\".
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