As soon as Blogs loads for me, I'll do just that.
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That's awesome. Yes, it's not every day you meet a lawyer doctor.

Post a photo of the new mug in your blog!

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The mailperson was flabbergasted by the titles on my package, asking me how long we've had a doctor in the house. A doctor AND a lawyer, no less! Thank you for the lovely mug and hosting the contest!

Sincerely,
Dr. Laura Elaine Wilson III, Esquire

That's awesome. Yes, it's not every day you meet a lawyer doctor.

Post a photo of the new mug in your blog!

In reply to this comment by UsesProzac:
The mailperson was flabbergasted by the titles on my package, asking me how long we've had a doctor in the house. A doctor AND a lawyer, no less! Thank you for the lovely mug and hosting the contest!

Sincerely,
Dr. Laura Elaine Wilson III, Esquire

The mailperson was flabbergasted by the titles on my package, asking me how long we've had a doctor in the house. A doctor AND a lawyer, no less! Thank you for the lovely mug and hosting the contest!

Sincerely,
Dr. Laura Elaine Wilson III, Esquire

The "Open letter to Dr. Laura" came first dammit!

http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/drlaura.asp

Ah, but by your standard, Dr. Laura is not a racist. She clearly doesn't think she is one, and she says she doesn't have any problem with race. She also makes the same sorts of assertions you have, namely that the big problem with race is that black people are too sensitive about stereotyping and the n-word.

I'm also having trouble deciding which side of the "what they did" vs. "what they are" argument you're trying to take up.
>> ^gorillaman:

The 'what they did' conversation is not a conversation anybody needs to have, not even when someone picks your pocket. A person doesn't pick a pocket in a vacuum of circumstance, they do it because of 'what they are'.

So people shouldn't be judged on what they've done, but on what they are, even with pickpocketing.
>> ^gorillaman:
I'd be careful applying that rule of thumb to spot racists. Like a cop who thinks he can tell when his suspect's guilty, it leads to trouble.

I agree with that, but that's why it's a rule of thumb.

But that leads to the obvious question, what does a cop do in order to establish guilt in court? They document to the best of their ability "what they did." I would argue that it's essentially impossible to prove "what they are" in any conclusive way. The best you can do in any situation is look at what they've done.

That's why I think saying "I'm not a racist" is no defense when you've said or done something racist, just like "I am not a pickpocket" is no defense when you've just been caught picking someone's pocket.

>> ^NetRunner:
I'm curious, what's your reaction to this video?


It's a good video, but I think it's symptomatic of the problem I'm talking about. A lot of well-intentioned but clumsy people spend their time worrying about whether this sounds a bit iffy or that could be hurtful; I don't think that accomplishes anything. The 'what they did' conversation is not a conversation anybody needs to have, not even when someone picks your pocket. A person doesn't pick a pocket in a vacuum of circumstance, they do it because of 'what they are'.

It can be satisfying to develop these strategies for winning arguments and generating the illusion of progress, but real progress is often tough going. Winning wars isn't easy. You need to talk about what people are.

I'd be careful applying that rule of thumb to spot racists. Like a cop who thinks he can tell when his suspect's guilty, it leads to trouble.

Dr. Laura's a retard. Racists are racist because they're stupid, if you already know someone's stupid, racism isn't really the issue anymore.

>> ^gorillaman:
What a person believes makes them a racist, what they feel or say does not.


I'm curious, what's your reaction to this video?

You're all hung up on whether or not people are racist, I'm trying to say that it ain't about who you are (and it's definitely not about your own self-assessment of who you are), it's about what you say and do.

Personally, I go a bit further, and believe that you can tell a lot about whether people are racist by their reaction to someone raising an issue about something they said. Racists always push back -- they don't apologize, and they try to act like they're being unfairly persecuted by the accusation.

For example, Dr. Laura said:

I really thought that once we had a black president, the attempt to demonize whites hating blacks would stop, but it seems to have grown, and I don't get it.

For clarity : Dr. Laura Schlessinger call

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It would be nice if Blacks stop using the n word also to and let it fade into history like slavery. Looks like it will be a few more generations before America can put this behind us.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

"Don't marry outside of your race." - Dr. Laura
This is far worse than saying 'nigger' 100 times.


Cracker cracker cracker.

"Don't marry outside of your race." - Dr. Laura

This is far worse than saying 'nigger' 100 times.

She has a doctorate in physiology, not psychology or psychiatry. So it's like professionally giving out medical advice with a degree in english literature.
>> ^Yogi:

>> ^alizarin:
IMHO if you're acting like a psychologist your stage name shouldn't be "Dr.Laura" if you don't have a degree in psychology.

She doesn't have a degree yet she's calling herself Dr.? Why isn't that illegal?

>> ^alizarin:

IMHO if you're acting like a psychologist your stage name shouldn't be "Dr.Laura" if you don't have a degree in psychology.


She doesn't have a degree yet she's calling herself Dr.? Why isn't that illegal?

Not that I listen to Dr. Laura frequently, but in the times I have heard her show, she tends to belittle callers when they ask for relationship advice.

I saw this same tone here...

She was asking the caller "what types of things did they say?" and honestly I can't blame her for not wanting to repeat what she considers racially offensive terms... whether or not her husbands white friends said the n-word or not.

Immediately Dr. Laura took this tone of well that doesn't sound so bad... and then used a poor example of a harsh racial epithet. And obviously the woman is already offended by racial comments as noted by her call to begin with, so then she took it as a person affront to her that Dr. Laura was saying the n-word and validating HBO or other black people from using the word.

Sounds like they got off on the wrong foot, and the conversation just degraded from there. I've never liked Dr. Laura's relationship advice anyway. She just tends to argue with people who call in, almost in a "grow up" type of sense.

As to why anyone would want to call into her show for "advice" is beyond me.

IMHO if you're acting like a psychologist your stage name shouldn't be "Dr.Laura" if you don't have a degree in psychology.