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One thing that bothers me about some posts concerning the primary candidates is that many posts seem to speak of racism, sexism, homophobia, etc. as "either - or" conditions. "He's a racist" or "he's not a racist"; "she's a sexist", or "she's not a sexist", etc. A comment may be purely sexist or racist, but a person rarely is. One result of this dichotomous portrayal is that some people get really bent out of shape when they believe someone is suggesting that they may be racist. In fact, like most human qualities, these things vary by degrees (and maybe in more complex ways). People can be a 7 on a 10 point scale, for example--very few people are truly racist or truly free of racism (etc.). Most of us are somewhat racist or sexist or ..., and may not be fully aware of it, and need to work on being better than that. Wish we could get past this tendency.
Just my 2 cents.
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