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Old Fri Jan 28, 2011, 02:53pm
JRutledge JRutledge is offline
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Originally Posted by Snaqwells View Post
Agreed, but I can only deal with what's obvious to me. And I'm, frankly, relatively clueless on these things.

I was in basic training before I knew "boy" was an insult with racial tones.

I'm more tuned to it than before, but I had no idea of stiffler's issue here. Hell, I couldn't have told you that Patel was a common Indian name before reading this thread.
And no one in their right mind is expecting you to do anything different. And I might treat a situation totally different from you. Just like someone will be offended if they say "God D&&m" in a sentence and I will not. You have to find your place in this and when someone chooses to behave in a certain way it is up to them to be aware that someone might react differently to their actions.

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