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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My parents, who are white, are in their late 60s. Lately, it seems as if they can't suppress comments about these things. For example, we chose to send our DC to a nondenominational preschool. My mother can't stop asking me for the umpteenth time why I couldn't find a nice Catholic preschool for her grandchild. In other conversations, both of my parents can't help themselves when it comes to having to point out race-- oh, a nice Indian family moved into the X family's house down the block. Or, that person who was rude to them was Hispanic. Just a lot of stuff like that. To top it off they've made such comments at my kid's birthday party last year where we had a few families of other races. It's just so damn embarrassing already.  What is it with some people? Does the filter just vanish over the years?  Do they just become increasingly xenophobic? What gives? I know plenty of older people who are not this way. Do some people just not know how to act? [/quote]

Maybe they're spending too much time watching CNN or paying attention to the Democrats.  The party’s electoral model is to divide voters along gender ("War on Women!!"), racial and socio-economic lines, and then patch together a majority by stoking grievances against those outside of their groupings.  All that class and race division catches up after a while.  Oh, and gives us Donald Trump.  [/quote]

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