# White folks and alcholism

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-folks-and-alcholism/817620>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [July 9, 2018, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-folks-and-alcholism/817620 "2018-07-09T23:25:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2018, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-folks-and-alcholism/817620/101 "2018-07-15T07:21:02Z")

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I feel like whether the grain was distilled or not is a fairly weak thing to hang the OP’s argument on. Seriously.

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**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2018, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-folks-and-alcholism/817620/102 "2018-07-15T10:13:40Z")

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Alcoholism?

It’s a white thing. Y’all wouldn’t understand.

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**Author:** ![backsidejohnny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/backsidejohnny/32/280_2.png) [@backsidejohnny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/backsidejohnny)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2018, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-folks-and-alcholism/817620/103 "2018-07-15T16:08:33Z")

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That logic stuff for sure.

Then later on I thought\*\* s/he\*\* may have thought that _s/he - a written representation of “he or she” used as a neutral alternative to indicate someone of either sex_ was a something to do with LGBTQQI.

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**Author:** ![skdo23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@skdo23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skdo23)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2018, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-folks-and-alcholism/817620/104 "2018-07-16T18:41:45Z")

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> [@Roderick\_Femm](#):
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> Heh, I didn’t take it that way, still don’t. I just thought all that nasty logic stuff made him uncomfortable…

I read “straight” to mean he doesn’t need to become “untangled.”

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