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[JaneMarple]

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@Laura14 wrote:

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@JaneMarple wrote:

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@Laura14 wrote:

I'm sorry @QueenDanceALot but that word is used to describe an entire gender (over half the world's population!) which is even larger than Roseanne's insult group.    

I really don't get how someone doesn't see it the equality in it.  

Because there isn't equality in the two!

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@JaneMarple  With the exception of slurring a racial group as opposed to a larger gender group, exactly the same.  

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Not even close!

[YorkieonmyPillow]

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@Nancy Drew wrote:

Then you have Sally Field jumping into this. Why? It wasn’t her fight. I don’t get especially by feminists why this isn’t as bad as racism. Aren’t they both horrible?

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  Yes but she's probably angling for a job in the great cesspool known as show business.

[cherry]

I think unless you have spent a lifetime  being considered by some ,to be subhuman, you can't begin to imagine, what an insult to a persons humanity, calling them an ape is

I have black family members and I can see how they feel, because of the way they have been treated

I would be more insulted to be called the c word, but I haven't had a lifetime of discrimination. I understand @JaneMarple  completely

[YorkieonmyPillow]

@cherry  I understand her, too, but what she doesn't understand, is that her opinion is just an opinion and is no more valid than anyone else's.

[CrazyDaisy]

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@cherry wrote:

I think unless you have spent a lifetime  being considered by some ,to be subhuman, you can't begin to imagine, what an insult to a persons humanity, calling them an ape is

I have black family members and I can see how they feel, because of the way they have been treated

I would be more insulted to be called the c word, but I haven't had a lifetime of discrimination. I understand @JaneMarple  completely

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I have to disagree, should not matter if it is one person or a whole group, both are equally wrong.  Why would you start placing degrees of wrong based on number you offend.

[JaneMarple]

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@cherry wrote:

I think unless you have spent a lifetime  being considered by some ,to be subhuman, you can't begin to imagine, what an insult to a persons humanity, calling them an ape is

I have black family members and I can see how they feel, because of the way they have been treated

I would be more insulted to be called the c word, but I haven't had a lifetime of discrimination. I understand @JaneMarple  completely

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Thank you @cherry, believe me that I've heard all of the jungle, swinging through the trees and other barbaric comments to last me several lifetimes. 

[cherry]

You are just looking at it from differnt perspcetives , you are both right when you only view it from one prism..I can see @JaneMarple  pov better than others, because of my family experience..Without that ,I am not so sure I could

[JaneMarple]

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@YorkieonmyPillow wrote:

@cherry  I understand her, too, but what she doesn't understand, is that her opinion is just an opinion and is no more valid than anyone else's.

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"She" understands completely!

[cherry]

I know @JaneMarple  and I am sorry. My fathers cousin had to endure that ,plus slurs about his Jewish faith..My aunt used to cry for him often

[JaneMarple]

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@cherry wrote:

You are just looking at it from differnt perspcetives , you are both right when you only view it from one prism..I can see @JaneMarple  pov better than others, because of my family experience..Without that ,I am not so sure I could

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As the old saying goes @cherry, "walk a day in my shoes".