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dan-o

dan-o

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Asshat can't even spell nigger correctly.
What an ignorant fvck.
 
Westy

Westy

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dan-o said:
Asshat can't even spell nigger correctly.
What an ignorant fvck.
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If you mis-spell it, it isn't racist. Just like leading a comment with "all due respect" or following it with "just saying" acquits you of any responsibility of said comment.

Example: With all due respect, Obama is a commie nagger nazi bastard. Just say'in.

I clearly cannot be held responsible for the above comment, it is what it is.
 
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Jim Mac

Jim Mac

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http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/08/05/209194252/15-years-later-tawana-brawley-has-paid-1-percent-of-penalty

It was 1987 when a black teenager, Tawana Brawley, said she had been raped and kidnapped by a group of white men in Dutchess County, N.Y.

Her story of being attacked, scrawled with racial slurs, smeared with feces and left beside a road wrapped in a plastic bag made front pages across the nation — especially after the Rev. Al Sharpton took up her case.

But, as , "a special state grand jury later determined that Brawley had fabricated her claims, perhaps to avoid punishment for staying out late."

In 1998, Steven Pagones, who was the county prosecutor at the time, won a defamation suit against Sharpton, Brawley and Brawley's attorneys. They had accused Pagones of being among Brawley's attackers.

"Sharpton has since paid off his [] debt with money raised by his supporters," . Brawley was ordered to pay $190,000.

It's been 15 years. With interest, the judgment against the now 40-year-old Brawley has grown to more than $430,000. Finally, , Pagones is receiving some of the money: $3,700, or about 1 percent of what he's now owed.

, "a Virginia court ordered Brawley's employer, The Laurels of Bon Air nursing home in Richmond, to garnish her wages. ... She's currently paying Pagones $627 each month." Pagones petitioned for such an order after the New York Post reported that Brawley is now employed as a nurse in Virginia.

"It's a long time coming," Pagones tells the Post, which adds that the former prosecutor is "more interested in extracting a confession from Brawley than cash."

"Every week, she'll think of me," . "And every week, she can think about how she has a way out — she can simply tell the truth."

Over the years, critics, politicians and news media have demanded that Sharpton apologize for his role and publicly condemn Brawley. But Sharpton has refused, perpetuating the ill will that many still hold for him.

"What do I have to apologize for? I believed her," Sharpton says. He says he regrets having resorted to "name-calling" against Pagones and that the case taught him to refrain from personal attacks in his activism. But he doesn't regret having stood for Brawley, he says.
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Local punk band had a song about this situation that turned out to be accurate, was called "Sh1tfaced, Half in the Bag".
 
syadasti

syadasti

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Jim Mac said:
Local punk band had a song about this situation that turned out to be accurate, was called "Sh1tfaced, Half in the Bag".
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Are you obsessing over this story, Steve posted it days ago and you've since posted it two more times?
 
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Kevin

Kevin

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That dude is an idiot. He just likes to yell about stuff. Like an atheist Bill O'Reilly.
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As a Dawkins fanboy, Ill be the first to admit that tweet is down right stupid.
But being very outspoken and passionate about something does not make you a yelling idiot imo. Especially if youre usually on the winning end of the argument.
A lot of the stuff he says would be perfectly fine in any other discussion but as soon as it comes to religion people get all defensive and sandy vagina like...
 
rockofullr

rockofullr

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Kevin said:
As a Dawkins fanboy, Ill be the first to admit that tweet is down right stupid.
But being very outspoken and passionate about something does not make you a yelling idiot imo. Especially if youre usually on the winning end of the argument.
A lot of the stuff he says would be perfectly fine in any other discussion but as soon as it comes to religion people get all defensive and sandy vagina like...
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I don't watch all his videos but i think the inflammatory intent of some of his comments is what leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
 
Kevin

Kevin

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Let me add that I find him a little assertive at times. And I definitly think he can be provocative just for the sake of being provocative. But from my point of view, drastic problems take drastic measures.
And I think thats exactly what hes doing.
 
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