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Originally Posted by Lostie!
Well then you need to "think" again. I responded in the way I did because you said "people" (without even bothering to specify whether you meant all or some of those "people") who take issue with such frequent accusations of racism are guilty of either racism or turning a blind eye to racism themselves and it happens to be a topic I feel strongly about, considering I'm mixed race and have been on the receiving end of the very thing you saw fit to accuse a group of people (of which I was one of) of being guilty of.
As I said, it's just another of an increasing amount of examples of people feeling perfectly content with accusing people they know nothing about of being racist and it's absolutely shameful (and, contrary to what you think, certainly does trivialise the issue).
I don't give a damn how many or few responded, that doesn't make it any less provocative and if you don't like being asked to answer for and actually explain the claims you make, don't bother making them in the first place or at least attempt to word them better.
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I shouldn't have to specify, if I say 'people' and you take that to mean every person that's ever existed ever then that's your problem
I still stand by what I said, but I will change the wording now for you if it's so incredibly difficult to surmise what I most likely meant:
some people don't like the thread title being pointed out because they either know it's true, or worse, are guilty of it themselves. Hopefully this puts such a ridiculous discussion to bed because it should be quite obvious that I couldn't possibly be talking about
everyone, it's a turn of phrase that has common usage and not many people genuinely think it applies to all. When I say 'people don't like argumentative housemates' I cannot possibly mean everyone because quite clearly some people do. The same would apply here and in other instances of the use of the word 'people'. I am not about to overthink every word I use in every sentence I ever construct just to be absolutely sure that already blindingly obvious meanings are evident to everyone that reads them, that should go without saying. Such incessant self analysis of semantics would be akin to those who go around saying 'in your opinion' implying people need to write 'IMO' at the end of everything they post on a forum just to be absolutely clear that, shock horror, their post is their bloody opinion. It all goes without saying, quite frankly. And now you've managed to involve me in a discussion of semantics after all so congratulations on that.
Funnily enough I was actually accused of racism on here once before, and on another occasion someone insinuated as much, so to make out I have no idea of the seriousness of such accusations when I've been on the receiving end of them is silly. The difference is in those instances there was no evidence to support the claims, they didn't even make out they had any evidence and they most certainly did not know anything about me. I, however, believe there is evidence to justify the claims I am making. It is not widespread and it does in no way apply to every member of this forum, nor every single viewer of this show, but it does exist.
I couldn't care less who wishes to respond to my posts, I'm merely pointing out that it can't have been that provocative if only one person kicked up a fuss over it (queue more people doing so now or something) and that as you've already said, there isn't much point in us continuing this discussion (or most other ones to be quite frank) as we aren't going to agree. Feel free to continue and I will respond, but it seems a bit bizarre to say that and then continue replying?
Angie Bowie,
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is there anything else you need me to clarify? How about pointing out my original post in this thread was '...in my opinion'? Actually that's a good one, yeah. People may disagree but I posted it because it was my opinion. Can't really think of any other obvious things that need clarifying but please do make sure to point them out to me if you spot them! 
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