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Brickbat

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1. I think one problem "our side" has is that we expect people to get it when we are snarky, sarcastic,

Reply to MattSh (Original post)

Fri Mar 2, 2012, 01:21 PM

Mar 2012

funny and/or oblique in our callouts. "Of course, no white person would ever be rude in a line" just isn't enough for people to get. You have to stop them and say, in all seriousness, "What? Wait, wait a minute. What did her being black have to do with it? Wait, no, stop a second. I'm curious why being black had anything to do with it."

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I think one problem "our side" has is that we expect people to get it when we are snarky, sarcastic, Brickbat Mar 2012 #1

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