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It's a dreary old issue, one that I'm not happy to dredge up again. Hence my tone. My apologies - it wasn't necessary to display my reticence like that.

Sorry about that. I just realized that you couldn't vote if you didn't give a card, so I changed the middle poll. You can delete your vote and do it again if you want.

My wife made me a card. It's better than encouraging Hallmark to continue their assault on our eyeballs with their ridiculous ads begging you to buy.

I think the complaint is that an image that was within the rules, at least as much as every image in the Daily Skin subforum, was removed because the opinion of one person superceded the opinion of everyone else. It's absolutely a reasonable complaint, and isn't remotely comparable to not being able to get a Big Mac at Burger King. Except that it wasn't one person. But feel free to complain.

All the cool kids are voting in polls these days. Here's your chance to vote. Again.

Yep. Bo's a Lefty. Disgusting!

I caught that, too. The verbatim line is: "Doc Sadler deserves as respectful a final month at Nebraska as its fans and the state can muster." LINK Most likely he's speculating, but it would make sense at this point. The program is as bad as it's ever been right now.

My sympathy level is exactly zero for the avatar being taken down. That picture is on literally 10,000 websites across the web. If you want to see it, try using google. It's like bitching that you can't have a Big Mac at Burger King. You get Whoppers at Burger King. You want a Big Mac? Go to the place that sells Big Macs.

WTF?!?!? What happened to "It'll just be our secret," Badger? Now everyone knows?

I would agree with Ohio State except that we don't play them every year. Michigan we play every year, and it started out poorly. It would be nice if we became Ohio State's "texas," as in, the team that they just can't seem to beat even when they're the better team.

Tim Sheridan is going to be on Jack and John on Wednesday at 8:10am on KLIN (1400 AM).

Looks like Romney isn't a shoo-in right now after all. I thought he had this thing tied up after Florida. Shows what I know.

Racism encompasses many things. Defining a person based on racial characteristics, especially derogatorily, is one of the hallmarks of racism.

We need a citation for that? Sorry I copied from Wikipedia. Yeah, that was kind of a "WTF?" for Wikipedia. I know you're just the messenger.

We need a citation for that?

As long as we can both agree that Whitlock is a twit regardless of whether the statement was racist or not, I think that's the important thing.

It's not racist. It was a joke and a funny one. So if he was a black guy and said some lady is going to feel ten inches of pain tonight would that be racist? Um, no! Yes. It would. Your failure to grasp that doesn't make it not racist.

From a strictly practical point of view, it's difficult to maintain status as a major world religion if you don't have a lot of followers. Encouraging your followers to have large families while at the same time discouraging use of any kind of contraceptive would appear to meet with this goal.

It is his right to say whatever stupid thing he wants. But that doesn't mean there aren't repercussions for saying anything he wants. Nor does it mean he can't be fired for saying such things (he can). Pretending it's not racist is silly. Let's not pretend. Just because it's racist doesn't mean it's the end of the world. It just means that Whitlock is ignorant. But we already knew that.

The Huskers had some tough competition this weekend and ended up going 3-3 at the Kajikawa Classic, where we beat #8 Arizona. We start the season with a Big Ten honoree:

And no, it's not racism. If anything, it's just a stereotype. How do you conclude racism with that comment? He didn't say anything bad about his race. Enough already.

It's not for the general public to determine what is or is not offensive to a particular person or group. It's up to them, and if they're offended, they have a right to make their point. I agree with walksalone that a lot of this is manufactured activism, and in a less politically-correct time this likely wouldn't be (and wasn't, for a long time) an issue. But if someone is offended, we cannot tell them, "You shouldn't be offended." It's up to them. And then it's up to a judge (if it gets that far) to make the call. EDIT - I'm the (currently) lone "Yes" vote up there. I don't wholly agree with the phrasing of the Yes vote option, but in the context of the above paragraph in this post, it is "racist" or "demeaning" if someone says it is. What is "demeaning" is in the eye of the beholder, much like what defines a religion is in a person's heart/head. A religion is simply a deeply held belief, meaning that if I truly, deeply, really feel that my water cup sitting on my desk is my deity, the government cannot tell me it is not, and they cannot dictate to me how I am to worship it (within certain guidelines, of course). In much the same way, the government cannot tell me, a free citizen, that I am not allowed to be offended by something. If someone else is not offended that's OK, but it doesn't negate my offense.

I have removed some more posts from this thread. Personal disputes do not belong in the general forums.

I agree, Street, but Whitlock's employer has encouraged his behavior since day one. I doubt they even reprimand him for this.