>> ^imstellar28:
This is why it is completely illogical (and hypocritical) to complain about racism (disrespect) at the same time you are disrespecting others.

To use your logic w/regard to trees, if I don't want a poison oak tree in my backyard, I must cut down all of my trees, or live with the poison oak, otherwise imstellar will call me illogical and hypocritical.

The real short explanation of why racism is not tolerated, while personal attacks are is that generally society has decided that judging people on their words and deeds is okay, while judging people on the color of their skin (or religious beliefs, or sexual orientation, or any other group classification) is not.

The problem with "black people are monkeys" is that it is disrespectful
The problem with "everyone who eats at mcdonalds is a fatass" is that it is disrespectful
The problem with "fuck all of yall" is that it is disrespectful.

None are polite, but I only think the first one crosses the line. "Everyone who eats at McDonald's is a fatass" sounds like a colorful way of saying McDonald's has fatty food. If that was something like "Fat people are all lazy and stupid", I'd say that crosses the line.

"Fuck all y'all" might even be an appropriate response, if "y'all" mistreated the speaker in some way.

Homeopathy is a fraud on two levels. On the first level they apply chemicals that have an effect opposite to the one you actually want. I.E. taking the active chemical in poison oak/ivy(urushiol)as a cure for a skin rash. This effect is allegedly achieved by diluting the chemical in water. This is the second level of fraud in homeopathy. Common homeopathic treatments are so diluting that the chance of there even being a single molecule of the active ingredient in the dosage is astronomically small.

Now, about acupuncture. There is no evidence that it works as advertised. That is by redirecting qi at your meridians. In fact, there is ample evidence that these meridians were actually a very recent invention and a massive fraud. Any perceived effect acupuncture has is either coincidental or a placebo effect. Which is what many, many recent studies have shown.

I'm going to go out on a limb of poison oak and say that Obama wins Pennsylvania, but barely.