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'Gary Has a Lake 2: Everyone in Indiana Isn't a Racist Dumbass'

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Dick Whitman, Sep 19, 2017.

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  1. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    Dick Whitman, Sep 19, 2017
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  2. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    heyabbott, Sep 19, 2017
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  3. MisterCreosote

    MisterCreosote Well-Known Member

    Writing a terrible, paint-by-numbers column like that is inadvisable, but she's not wrong that the surest way to ignorant narrow mindedness is to never leave your hometown.
     
    MisterCreosote, Sep 19, 2017
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  4. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    I was flabbergasted to learn that a fucking Union state had a stop on the Underground Railroad.
     
    Dick Whitman, Sep 19, 2017
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  5. Donny in his element

    Donny in his element Well-Known Member

    Yeah, but I bet the train cars were segregated.
     
    Donny in his element, Sep 19, 2017
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  6. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    You're confusing it with the Boston stop.
     
    Dick Whitman, Sep 19, 2017
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  7. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    I live in Indiana and love it. Great place to raise kids. The state is financially healthy. The weather, all things considered, is fine. A great state university. Affordable housing pretty much everywhere. There's a lot of good, cheap golf.

    But if you're telling me you moved from San Diego to Terre Haute, I'm not going to give you a high-five. I'm going to look at you like you're nuts.
     
    playthrough, Sep 19, 2017
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  8. MisterCreosote

    MisterCreosote Well-Known Member

    San Diego is also a little more politically diverse than this writer gives it credit for.

    It's not like some of the other whackadoo California cities.
     
    MisterCreosote, Sep 19, 2017
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  9. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    Her friends are idiots:

    As I settled into life in the Midwest, I heard the same assumptive questions: “Did everyone you know vote for Donald Trump?" "Are there African-American, Jewish, Asian, LGBTQ people in Indiana?" "Do people make fun of you for listening to National Public Radio?”
     
    YankeeFan, Sep 19, 2017
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  10. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    Her friends aren't real.
     
    Dick Whitman, Sep 19, 2017
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  11. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    Yeah. You're probably right.

    It's just weird to paint your fellow urban liberals -- who are supposed to be so smart -- as ignorant bubble dwellers.
     
    YankeeFan, Sep 19, 2017
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  12. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    It's funny. Sally Kohn, a lesbian, progressive, talking head, who used to appear on Fox News, gave a Ted Talk where she explained to her audience that conservatives, including Sean Hannity, are nice.

    Do other progressives really need to be told this?

    I don't know of examples of the opposite, where conservatives tell their shocked friends about an interaction with liberals in which they discovered that liberals are actually nice.

     
    YankeeFan, Sep 19, 2017
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