On Tue, 04 May 2010 14:58:00 -0400, Warp wrote:

> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>> On Tue, 04 May 2010 08:06:58 -0400, Warp wrote:
> 
>> >   Well, maybe I am stupid for assuming that people can have a
>> >   rational
>> > conversation even if the subject happens to contain the term "race".
> 
>> No, but you assume that what you're writing and what people are reading
>> are the same thing, and when people try to get you to clarify what
>> you're saying because it isn't making sense, you assume that the READER
>> is either stupid or trying to twist your words, and then you launch an
>> attack on them.
> 
>   I have said several times what I mean, but you keep going on and on
>   with
> the same "you defend putting people in jail because of being brown"
> bullshit. It's like you read only what you want to read. Then you accuse
> me of "launching an attack" or whatever.

That's because you keep saying "profiling based on race isn't a problem" 
and then claim - quite counterintuitively, that you don't see race.  You 
sound like Stephen Colbert, except that he's engaging in *satire* and I 
don't think you are.

>> What we have here is a failure to communicate.  Plain and simple.  You
>> simply refuse to acknowledge that you play a role in this failure to
>> communicate, and that everyone ELSE must be stupid.
> 
>   See, here we go again. You are putting words in my mouth. Words I have
> never said. This is your idea of "communication"?

Oh FFS, I AM NOT PUTTING WORDS IN YOUR MOUTH.

Jim

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