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Alabama voters put Pledge of Allegiance, school prayer in the state constitution (reason.com)
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On Tuesday, Alabama residents voted on Constitutional Amendment 3 to amend the state constitution by requiring public schools to recite the Pledge of Allegiance daily and allow "student-led prayer."​ The measure officially passed on Wednesday, with 63 percent of the vote, according to The New York Times.

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[–] 1 point 16 hours ago (1 child)

Maybe you could check whom you reply to.

I'm the OP and I didn't bother replying to you because you don't understand rhetorical exaggeration.

That's a different dude, he was joking, and you don't seem to understand humor either.

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  • [–] 1 point 12 hours ago

    I did in fact see it was a different person I was responding to. I tried to make my language target neutral. I settled on "rebuttal," as it felt like it restarted the attribution to responding to my post, not your OP, though I suppose using "double down" probably did the opposite. Regardless, I did recognize it was a different person.

    But let's be clear. Bald faced prejudice is not rhetorical exaggeration. It's not rhetorical exaggeration to say "black people are usually criminals." Are some black people criminals? Sure. But to pretend that it is therefore somehow intrinsic to that community isn't innocent point making. It's racism.

    And sure, that guy was joking. But let's say someone says something racist, I call out the racism, and then someone makes a racist joke in response. I don't think it's "not understanding humor," to call it out when I've already established the problem is the racism.

    Prejudice and tribalism isn't a good thing. Even when it's against people you don't like. Perhaps especially then.

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