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Originally Posted by Pressing-On
I didn't say it shouldn't be or isn't offensive. I'm just saying that I'm not sure it always is. You can call anyone "boy" and not always mean something by it. I just didn't know it was a standard about blacks.
AND I'm saying that because everyone is calling Obama childish, I didn't think anything of Rush calling him a boy. Mainly, because he goes on to say, "this man-child". That is basically calling him immature and inexperienced.
SO, I'm wondering if we are making a big deal out of nothing.
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But do you see the possibility that Rush created this criticism just so he could skirt as close to the edge as he could? My goodness, he knows the ramifications of calling a black man a "Boy". If he wasn't trying to do this intentionally (trying to skirt the edge and create a media storm), he wouldn't come within a country mile of calling him this. He would simply critique his inexperience and just say that he's behaving in an immature fasion. True?