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I can't really answer your question because "offended" is not what I would call my response to his statements. I just thought he was a prejudiced idiot.
I didn't take his words out of context so I knew, that while idiotic, what he was trying to say was that the caller's comments about abortion and social security were equally idiotic.
I think what lead to my disgust with his comments, was the inherent prejudice in his train of thought. I was disgusted that he actually thought that a race cause crime instead of a soccal state. Honestly, given whose cabinet he was in I should not have been surprised, but I was. I was surprised that a politican that polished and experienced would say some mess like that, even if he believed it. Then came my disgust when I realized he didn't even notice his own prejudice in the statement which is why he thought it was appropriate to say.
But something I can comment on in your post is that I don't think its un-p.c. in this country to look down o nthe poor. People do it all the time. Politicans rarely get blasted for lamblasting the welfare Queen. Perhaps, its un-p.c. to look down on the working poor, but the lazy, we American hate them- and we find that entirely p.c.
Also, its not more offensive to abort AfAms than poor people, I think if someone really felt that way it would sad all around.
I disagree with your argument race and class are one in the same, but then I disagree with most things you say.
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