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At the time this all started (think I was 4 or so when some thug-in-the-making cornered me with a pen knife in my grandmother's apartment building), what struck me as strange was that a lot of the kids who were hassling me were hispanic. Got even more confusing when I got older and realised that I wasn't even that dark on the dark skin scale, yet the name-calling persisted. I guess darkest in the school = niggerworthy.

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Originally posted by PivotTechno At the time this all started (think I was 4 or so when some thug-in-the-making cornered me with a pen knife in my grandmother's apartment building), what struck me as strange was that a lot of the kids who were hassling me were hispanic. Got even more confusing when I got older and realised that I wasn't even that dark on the dark skin scale, yet the name-calling persisted. I guess darkest in the school = niggerworthy.

Or kids are just kids and it has nothing to do with any race or color in particular.

If kids are just kids, then why do a lot of the adults that I know still carry around the same racial stereotyping?

I guess they aren't really adults, are they?

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Originally posted by MGT Or kids are just kids and it has nothing to do with any race or color in particular.

http://health.yahoo.com/news/health...tobesekids.html

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quote: New research suggests that just being overweight increases the risk of being bullied. And factors that usually play a role in the risk of being bullied, such as gender, race and family income levels, don't seem to matter if you're overweight -- being overweight or obese trumps all those other factors when it comes to aggressive behavior from other children. The study found that being overweight increased the risk of being the target of bullying by 63 percent. ... quote: "What we found, much to our dismay, was that nothing seemed to matter. If you were obese, you were more likely to be bullied, no matter what," she said.

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Originally posted by PivotTechno If kids are just kids, then why do a lot of the adults that I know still carry around the same racial stereotyping? I guess they aren't really adults, are they?

Product of their environment?


On a lighter note:
"High-Pitched Women Prefer Deep-Voiced Men"
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Women with high-pitched voices apparently prefer deep-voiced, manly men, according to new research that sheds light on the rules of attraction.

The mistakes you make and your refusal to admit they are mistakes are in contradiction with some actually valid insight you've been able to demonstrate. There's fundamental of a troll, right there: successfully displaying that you can be reasoned with while still being unreasonable.

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Originally posted by EddieZilker The mistakes you make and your refusal to admit they are mistakes are in contradiction with some actually valid insight you've been able to demonstrate. There's fundamental of a troll, right there: successfully displaying that you can be reasoned with while still being unreasonable.

Are you talking about yourself again?

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Originally posted by PivotTechno que? I thought you were the drug fiend?

by the way, everyone in the site who commented about my addiction problem was either surprised, supportive and non-judgmental, you're the only one who's called me a drug fiend.
what a ******.

Once you're able to neutralise those two words in your mind, you'll be considerably less bothered by them. I wouldn't have used them so liberally if I hadn't been on the receiving end of them at some point and time.

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Originally posted by PivotTechno Once you're able to neutralise those two words in your mind, you'll be considerably less bothered by them. I wouldn't have used them so liberally if I hadn't been on the receiving end of them at some point and time.

But the only way to do that is to take more drugs.

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Originally posted by EddieZilker But the only way to do that is to take more drugs.

Sounds like you have experience in that.