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NeedleCast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-31-10 01:37 PM
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Back Rally - "The Waterworld of White Self-Pity"
http://www.slate.com/id/2265515/

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In a rather curious and confused way, some white people are starting almost to think like a minority, even like a persecuted one. What does it take to believe that Christianity is an endangered religion in America or that the name of Jesus is insufficiently spoken or appreciated? Who wakes up believing that there is no appreciation for our veterans and our armed forces and that without a noisy speech from Sarah Palin, their sacrifice would be scorned? It's not unfair to say that such grievances are purely and simply imaginary, which in turn leads one to ask what the real ones can be. The clue, surely, is furnished by the remainder of the speeches, which deny racial feeling so monotonously and vehemently as to draw attention.

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More at the link.

Its so hard being in the white, christian majority. Boo Hoo.
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Enrique Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-31-10 01:45 PM
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1. I love a good Waterworld reference
here's what Hitchens means:

"The numbers were impressive enough on their own, but the overall effect was large, vague, moist, and undirected: the Waterworld of white self-pity. "

:rofl:
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NeedleCast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-31-10 01:50 PM
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2. It's pretty brilliant, isn't it?
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