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Message: [QUOTE="john1420, post: 3594951, member: 2077"] I don't buy the whole this type of comment is OK because this reason, and that isn't because of history, oppression, other reasons. Targeting someone's appearance to taunt them, put them off their game, make them feel bad, whatever - this behaviour is either OK or it isn't. 30 years ago it was OK. If someone said crap like that to you, you either gave back as good as you got, or you punched them. That was the way world worked. These days, the standards are different. But there can't be different lines. And I understand that calling me fat and bald is not AS bad as calling a person of colour something racist, but it still MUST be considered bad and therefore not OK to do. Using words to target someone's appearance, that they often have no control over, in order to shame them, demoralise them, etc. is utterly indefensible in today's society, completely irrespective of whether those words are racially motivated or not. That so many people here cannot see this boggles my mind. [/QUOTE]

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