Zimmerman Martin Case

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katannaluv

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In a similiar vein a few days ago in another thread a few prople were talking about how any guy walking around with his shirt of in the heat at least looks like a yob.. Didn't matter that its just more comfortable in the sun, there's already a perception that guys who walk around topless have certain characteristics.
 
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bucky3489

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I'm more likely to have my hood up at night time because that's when it is colder, and that's the main reason I wear one. Rain being the other reason.
 
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AlexisInfectious®

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But, we do not know what kind of activity he was doing "while" he had his hood up

Although, we are discussing the subject of stereotyping and profiling, we can all agree, not everything is at it seems

That said, in my teens, the main drug dealer was a "Opy" looking dude, whom we called OPY, but we started calling him "Pink Floyd", because his name was Floyd, and he had freckles that sometime shined pinkish

No one could stereotype or profile him as a drug dealer, which he projected himself not to appear this way

Which, if you think about it, he had actually stereotyped/profile all of the us hippies to avoid detection
 
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Mailey85

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I was a bit shocked at some of the comments in that thread. It definitely brought out the snob in some people!

We all have our personal tastes I guess, but I get a bit uncomfortable when those tastes are based on ethnicity or socioeconomic status.
 
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missymay

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The only thing I have a problem with are people who are WAY too obese to be wearing small clothing, and it gets more offensive to me the more socially deviant the clothing is. For example I saw a guy who had to be at least 6'7 in a mall once and probably weighing in at 350lbs dressed in gothic woman's attire and it was all way, way too small and revealing. I tend to not care about the "accept people for who they are" at that point. It was an abomination.

And people who wear Tapout clothing . . . .
 
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ICGayPeople

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It was an abomination.
Speaking of

I was visiting a relative in another city, and there were black males walking around with their pants low exposing their underwear. This was a gangsta thing to have pants without belts, as in first arrested and in prison, your belt is one of the items taken away.

When I returned home, I had asked a local cop about this, he said they consider this as "indecent exposure" or something like that under legal, and such person will get detained in our area

Nowadays to think of anyone doing something as a abomination, goes against the political correct liberalism. In other words, "accept people for who they are" comes back into play
 
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SNIPERHUNTER71

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I could accept somebody walking down the street naked easier than I can the description I gave earlier. Making your body twist and contort in weird and unnatural ways with any kind of clothing or device unnerves me.

Sagging certainly doesn't bother me much. It actually makes me feel more confident self-defense wise because all you have to do is 'pants' them to be safe. Sort of like not having to worried about being kicked as much by people who are wearing hipster jeans
 
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jentt

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Dang, I missed it

But we're getting into personal tastes now.

I don't mind fat people squashed into skimpy clothes. I don't mind baggy trousers and exposed pants.

I do think men in flip-flops look so ridiculous, I almost sympathise with Idi Amin for making people eat them under threat of firing squad. Add a pair of 3/4 length shorts and I find myself in complete agreement with him.

Baggy trousers around the knees in "gangsta" fashion = ok

Skinny jeans around the knees in emo fashion = a crime against humanity

BUT

See the difference? PASmith saying topless guys look stupid, Ero talking of a human abomination, me saying flip-flops should be eaten by their owners at gun point, none of these statements actually involve action being taken to inhibit the freedom of fellow human beings.


This makes the above statements quantifiably different from the kind of bigotry that actually leads to people being discriminated against, so much so that they earn less money, cannot expect a fair trial, get assaulted for their appearance, are viewed with automatic suspicion, and all the other inhuman behaviours that the discriminated find themselves on the recieving end of.
 
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doytoyt

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Trying to call everyone to strap their steel toe boots on while conditioning their abs with med. ball slams and assembling a tightly knit phalanx while sleep deprived are you?
 
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