Afterguy,
you seem to have appointed yourself not only to be the moral
guardian of this site but, at the same time, to be the sole judge of what is or is not appropriate.
I find your sheer affrontery in attempting to force your interpretation of a remark upon others even more reprehensible than the comment that provoked your reaction in the first place.
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The comment is (in my opinion) not racist, and it would seem that I am not the only to say so. Correct me if I am wrong, but there were only two members to have stated that the post was "racist"; and the only one who can categorically state what the remark was meant as is the author. The discussions that went back and forth about labor practices were more interesting than the original topic (sorry, don't have to worry about bottom
paint for a while). If stating a fact, no matter how uncomfortable it might be, is deemed racist or otherwise politically incorrect then I'll be happy to let myself be labelled as such instead of ignoring the truth as a matter of being expedient.
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