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In reply to the discussion: a friend just had to flee for his life....from Idaho [View all]Alice11111
(5,730 posts)75. I heard someone repeat a joke about "chinks" the other day.
It was the first.time I had heard an actual person use that term. I had heard it in movies, documentaries. Shocking. My eyes noticeably bugged out. She didn't even know she and her son were being racist.
Very wealthy, educated, but isolated with their wealthy friends.
I think if hospitals required some parenting classes, a few evenings before the birth, that teach parents how to dicipline without abuse (a huge problem & RW teachings make it worse ) and how to raise respectful kids, it would help a lot. High schools and colleges should too, IMHO. Repubs would call it brain washing, but we have to start trying something.
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Glad he made it out of Idaho hell alive . Hope his kid can get out of there soon no doubt they may
lunasun
Sep 2017
#2
What bothers me is that so many of these "deplorables" were just keeping quiet,
maddiemom
Sep 2017
#49
I've never heard the term "beaner baby". Maybe it's just as well that I'm
No Vested Interest
Sep 2017
#20
"Beaner" is a slur against Mexicans. Of course, Puerto Ricans aren't Mexicans, so... n/t
DRoseDARs
Sep 2017
#23
Its Idaho. I wouldn't expect anything different. Seems to be a haven for hardcore white supremacists
SweetieD
Sep 2017
#10
When the UN says hate in this country is a huge problem, it's a huge fucking problem.
Initech
Sep 2017
#13
The story of your friend's treatment and that poor 8-year-old boy they tried to lynch make me ill.
Frustratedlady
Sep 2017
#15
Did you have two tabs opened in DU? It looks like you're replying to one about Trump slurring...
Hekate
Sep 2017
#21
Idaho, one of the most beautiful parts of America, filled with the worst people.
cemaphonic
Sep 2017
#56
I just attended a reading by an African-American poet from Moscow, near the WA state border,
Ken Burch
Sep 2017
#74