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And maybe you can stop pretending that you weren't implying racism....
Again, I guess you are the other two people in the world who have never laughed at an off-color, even bad joke.
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Sigmund Freud would have a good time with you.
Since I used Google Images to find the image of the 12 year old girl on page 1 of this thread, have you Google Imaged "12 year old girl" yet? Almost all of the images on the first 5 pages of results are 12 year old white girls with a few Asian and other nonBlack girls. These are two of the first images of "12 year old girl" who are of the more immediate Black or African Diaspora:
Perhaps I needed to scour Google Images for a Black girl so that you can grasp the point being made--which does not instantly make it not about race since Black girls still have a race regardless of the discussion at hand. When you responded about white privilege and so forth, it confirmed what I assumed would happen. Now that you are over your imagination that I was calling you racist because of my effortless choice of a white 12 year old girl who actually looks under the age of 18 in Google Images, certainly you can grasp that images shape perceptions of demographic characteristics including age.
Certainly you can grasp that the media makes every effort to advertise the victimization of women and children who are often considered "beautiful," "innocent looking," and "adorable" based on mainstream standards which in turn shapes the mainstream/general public's response to the victimization of some people versus others. That has long been correlated with factors including but not limited to socioeconomic status and race and ethnicity. Even someone who believes "no one is holding you back but yourself" can grasp this. You even stated numerous times that it is difficult to gauge the age of girls and especially racial and ethnic minority girls. Rhetorical question1, how do you think that shapes perception and response from the general public and the media? Rhetorical question2, if there are some children who look their age and some children who look older than their age, and this has been linked to race and ethnicity, how does it not make sense to look at children in the same age group across races and ethnicities? Rhetorical question3, have not mainstream images of beauty and innocence around the world been linked for decades to socioeconomic status and race, ethnicity, and culture and been studied as they pertain to forms of crime and deviance and people's perceptions of crime and deviance?
"Where's the spoon?! Where's the spoon?!"
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Originally Posted by Kevin
And to steal one from Jeffrey Ross, if you're offended, you could do as Paterno did and just look the other way.
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Interesting. Yet you cannot get over what you imagine happened on page 1 of this thread.
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