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[quote=Anonymous]@19:50-

1. I'm not angry and I'm not sure how you got anger from my post. If you don't believe the data and don't have any data on hand that you do believe, there really isn't much point in discussing it further.

2. Your focus on being "unhappy" with large blocks of people instead of focusing on ways to change their thinking is strange but telling.

3. [quote]Would you not hold whites accountable for discrimination against black people? Would you only look at the root causes, say white poverty or their churches? No.[/quote]

How can you claim that without knowing me or how I think? It's actually insulting. Because I don't believe people are inherently racist, of course I study the root causes of racism. I do the same for other forms of prejudice. You can't contribute to progress if you can't understand what needs to change. Again, your focus on holding people accountable is extreme, but it's remniscient of our society's thirst for justice above all else. I don't care about holding people accountable for racism or sexism or classism- I care about eradicating (or, more realistically, reducing) those kinds of prejudice.

4. And the white people (and people of other races) who support the ban os same-sex marriage are also overwhelmingly religious. So instead of focusing on race, why not focus on the one factor that study after study has shown is the root of the anti-gay prejudice? And you don't even have to look to research, you can read this forum. The people who are against same-sex marriage most often use religious reasons. This forum is also majority-white.

Of course, religiosity differs by race, so the approach in each "community" has to be different and tailored to that specific group of people. But this is not a race problem, it's a religious problem.

5. I agree and I'd say that for every group of people, including the group of white young adults I witnessed today, who teasing each other by calling each other fags and saying a particular friend's shorts look "faggy."[/quote]

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