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BirdDog
Assistant Professor
9 years ago

Pet peeve thread......

OK, happy holidays! Here we go......   I hate, hate the "in line" versus "on line" thing. Many use "on line" to describe standing "in line". Drives me nuts!   So instead of standing "in" a line o...
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MarkJFine
Professor
9 years ago
BirdDog wrote:

Another pet peeve.....predjudice.

Yes, of any kind. At some point, we'll become a single race of humans instead of something akin to a tribal society based upon artifical labels and classifications. Unfortunately that won't happen in our lifetime.

 

Contributing to the pet peeve theme is how people automatically, and incorrectly call something 'racist' rather than 'prejudice' nowadays, probably because it has more shock effect.

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BirdDog
Assistant Professor
9 years ago

I honestly hope we mix and become one. This race stuff is ridiculous IMO. Like saying a German Sheppard is better than a Labrador or Poodle. In the end we are all human beings. 

 

I sure helped derail my own thread. To me "Make America Great Again" means all of us learning to get along. Hope that's not being political. Just a fact of life if you ask me.

 

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/prejudice

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    GabeU
    Distinguished Professor IV
    9 years ago
    BirdDog wrote:

    I honestly hope we mix and become one. This race stuff is ridiculous IMO. Like saying a German Sheppard is better than a Labrador or Poodle. In the end we are all human beings. 

     

    I sure helped derail my own thread. To me "Make America Great Again" means all of us learning to get along. Hope that's not being political. Just a fact of life if you ask me.

     

    https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/prejudice

    I could not agree more!