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Originally posted by James
How come many people tend to grow defensive, take general comments personally and then lash out? Its a common pattern but makes discourse difficult.
Couldn't we be calm and stick to the issues?
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it's hard to have intelligent conversation when the first "general" comment is a bigoted and racist one. what's the point of having thought provoking conversation when the first comment cast already has very little thought behind it? what i find funny is when people make "general" (i.e. prejudiced) comments about a certain race of people, they complain about being called a racist.