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And two wrongs don't make a right. (Like Harry Connick Jr, I expect to be congratulated for not making a racist joke there. Especially since I'm an ancient Brit raised on the pantomime version of Aladdin.)

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i can say with some certainty that there is not a frat boy anywhere of any color or any fraternity or any state or any university that doesn't make me want to punch him in the nuts.

i say this as a small urban blond girl with no obvious means of harming anyone.

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As a white Midwestern man I am confused. Is it racist when minorities do racist stuff? Or does it like, cancel out like adding two negative numbers?

UGH. Math is hard.

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Love the accidental racism in the Connick clip: "We spend so much time trying to not make black people look like buffoons..."

Umm ... you keep trying, because it's so hard? Is that it?

Ah well, give him credit for all the trying, because the LTD crew ain't even

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Not at all, it means you're an equal opportunist.

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If this fad catches on, I could become a black man which is, of course, an improvement for me. (As I told my wife on the way to see "42" about Jackie Robinson, "I can watch white people behaving badly without a mirror.")

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