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Old 04-07-2009, 01:10 PM
 
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I just want to jump in and support what jayman’s saying. This girl (her name…) is not at all sophisticated enough to realize that her words can have more than one meaning, and that her racism is so deep-rooted that she can’t understand why anyone would criticize her for wanting to live in a white society (not just a neighborhood, I’d guess). No one is criticizing her desires no matter how repugnant, she’s welcome to think anything she wants, she just doesn’t realize what can be inferred by how she says something and how that can be offensive to others. Jayman pointed out that if she was interested in a middle-class locale she didn’t need the word “white”, but she consciously used it because that’s what she wants. But to assume that she is color-blind is a false assumption, she’s clearly not, as she says in her second message, ”I grew up, and still live in, an all white area. I like it that way and I really don't see what the problem is with what I said. I didn't say anything nasty or malicious [yes, it was]. I just wanted to give specific specs [specific specifications?] on what I was looking for. Why am I being criticized for my living preferences [preferences, in this case, are biases against another race]? I don't want to live in a diverse area.” She asks why she’s being criticized but thinks it’s because of what she likes, but really the criticism lays in what she doesn’t like, obviously people of color. That’s the crux of the matter. Her ignorance of her own bias is sad, but the real tragedy is that she never wants to learn about the real world that will eventually be at her doorstep, and she won’t know what to do.
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Old 04-07-2009, 08:05 PM
 
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Just a suggestion, let's not totally psychoanalyze this poster since she's not around to defend herself and hasn't posted at all for 6 months.
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