Great! Always want to keep in stock.
Silly ol’ me! I know I shouldn’t get upset – I should just learn to take it and shut up whenever I’m repeatedly called an apologist for racism.
Live and learn.
Richards is looking like a liar in addition to other things. According to msn, the guy is not Jewish even though that’s what he claimed to be back in April, as a way of excusing some anti-Semitic remarks he made in a routine. Interesting.
I thought this thread had died because it wasn’t showing up in my “SDMP control panel.” Weird. Anyway…
Why is it you occupy such a position of authority such that you can question how I go about my friendship relationships but I can’t question you about how you go about yours without you responding you don’t need me telling you how relationships work because you’re a big boy?
Sure important aspects of your friends’ lives will eventually become a topic of conversation as the friendship grows but sometimes some of those traits which are fundamental to your existence are the last thing you really want to talk about with certain of your friends. If you’re a woman do we really need to focus on the fact the guys you work with don’t give your engineering degree as much weight as men’s engineering degrees or do you want to relax with a friend with whom you share mostly the fact you’re both obsessed with the care and breeding of South American Cichlids?
Sometimes blacks want to talk about anything but the fact they’re black. Sometimes women want to talk about anything but the fact they’re a walking uterus. Sometimes a white guy would like to talk about anything but the fact he’s apparently oppressing the whole world.
Bullshit, where are you? Yoo-hoo! Bullshiiiit? C’mere, boy, c’mere! Oh, there you are!
I’d invite you, sir, to reread my post, but just for the hell of it, what I said was: [Li’l Pluck]Maybe **I’m ** the odd-ball here, but **I’ve ** never become friends with someone who possessed some trait that might be fundamental to their existence (y’know, the way that race, sex, religion, politics, if they have children, whether or not they’re in a relationship, what-the-hell-ever very often can be) without imagining that said trait and how it impacts their life and view of the world might, at some point (but not always) be the focus of conversation between us.
Perhaps your mileage varies.[/Li’l Pluck]
(bolding mine)
IOW, I wasn’t questioning how **you ** go about forming **your ** riendships (in the grander scheme of things, I don’t, at least at this time, particularly care); I was simply telling you what was important to **me ** in terms of my understanding of the (close) friendships that **I’ve ** formed in my big-boy 36 years of existence.
Where the hell you get the idea that what I wrote means that I presume to be the authority on friendships, I don’t know. And FTR (please keep this in mind for wherever else you might see me on these boards): People disagreeing with me, I can take, but one thing that really gets in my craw is being misunderstood, especially when I believe that I’ve not done anything to contribute to the misunderstanding. And if I do , on the (if I do say so myself) rare occasion make that mistake, I’ll be an adult and own up to it. I don’t, however, believe that I made that error in the post that you quoted.
No argument here. Except for that “white guy oppressing the whole world” snark at the end. Totally unncecessary, yet revealingly defensive.
I didn’t see this posted, but Michael Richards has a fan – Mel Gibson.
Seems Mel feels a kinship because he was also subjected to public torture just because the devil bigot spirit temporarily took control of his body too. But he doesn’t think response to his new movie will be affected:
“The movie will stand on its own, regardless of any unfortunate experience I may have stumbled upon.” 
::stern look::
All right, which one of you left a bigotted assholic tirade in Mel’s path? Hmmmm???
FTR, I don’t take into consideration whatever else or where ever else you’ve posted on this board. I generally can’t be arsed to look it up. I don’t care to. I don’t WANT to.
That people misunderstanding you gets in your craw is your gig, not mine. Demonstrate I’m disingenuously trying to misrepresent your POV, otherwise quitcherbitchin’.
Ah, so blacks talking about their problems and women talking about their problems is A-Okay. White males talking about one of the issues they have to deal with is “revealingly defensive.” Woo, hoo! Li’l Pluck reveals a bit more about his point of view.
Actually, I think you missed Gibson’s point. What I was left wondering is how efficient a delivery method “stumbling upon” is for Scotch. 
Just look at your own goddamned posts in response to mine, asshole.
No, dickhead. You getting your sphincter in a twist and whining that anyone (and is it only non-whites?) who broaches the subject of racism in even the most innocent of ways is accusing you of world oppression is what is revealingly defensive about you.
I don’t know why, dude, but you seem to have developed this hard-on for me. If you were willing to engage in even the slightest rational, intelligent debate **and ** make your point *without * **deliberately ** misreading or twisting my words, I might be flattered. Or, at the very least, I might have some grudging respect for you. As your last few posts demonstrate, however, you aren’t, so I don’t.
When you’re ready to leave the confines of your intellectual sandbox, you might find me on the boards somewhere, talking to the rest of the adults.