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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 6869833" data-attributes="member: 19675">There you go.  That's it in a nutshell.  You have the offenders, and the you have the ones who- while they may not be offenders themselves- don't see the problem and thus, don't take any action to change the situation.  This silence becomes complicity: it maintains the environment in which the offenses can continue without repercussions.In the late 1990s, a new seafood restaurant opened in my neighborhood.  We went in at an off-peak time, so the place was empty.  We ordered our food and it was pretty good. Mid-meal, however, some others came in and out in their orders.  One walked over to the juke box and put some money in, so we were treated to the David Allen Coe song, "My Wife Ran Away With A <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />".*The owner shot the other group (laughing like hyenas) a dirty look as we left, never to return, but...who is responsible for buying/renting and installing the jukebox in the first place?  What business loaded that song into the machine to make it available to purchase? DAC claims he's not a racist- his drummer's wife is black- but why record that song?**There was a whole chain of actions and inactions that made that moment possible.* which, BTW, is something I actually appreciate about Southern bigots- they often tell you who they are. They almost can't help themselves.  Makes them easier to avoid.  In the North, they generally keep themselves concealed more often than not, and simply sabotage you.** and others.  See his Underground Album, which was called one of the most racist, misogynistic, and homophobic albums ever by one reviewer.</blockquote>

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