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You're an idiot. Worry about your own party and stop crying about everything everyday.

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You're an idiot. Worry about your own party and stop crying about everything everyday.

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You and your fucking political party are Nazis.

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Oh, heck. I can remember when portable tape recorders first came out. We bought one and I can remember all of us learning how to use it. My mum trying to record herself singing Christmas carols. Only one problem with that. She couldn't carry a tune in a bucket. When you replayed the tape you could sort of hear my dad in the background laughing. She ignored them. A friend of my mum's had I do believe an old reel to reel recorder. I wasn't allowed to touch it when I was a kid. She showed me how it worked but that was all.

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Hah. I remember getting my first "portable" tape recorder. It was kind of a beast. Big red brick with beefy black buttons on the end that had a grey strap on it. I carried that thing around with me at least until the next Christmas. If I wasn't recording my brothers and I doing goofy stuff, I was using it to play the music I'd recorded off the radio. I loved that thing. Long gone along with all those tapes now. Sure wish out of all the stuff I'd gotten rid of over the years that I kept that stuff.

I don't think it was particularly "cheap" by the time I got one, but I'm sure that they'd come way down in price or I wouldn't have gotten it at the age I did. I was probably only 7 or 8 years old.

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Course I don't have an e-reader or a kindle. I love books, something you can actually hold and feel in my hands. That's probably why I have so many of them. I want that connection to the writer.

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Yeah. My old man made the switch to Kindle and he loves it. I know he's way older than you are. I think with him part of the reason it's good is because of the backlighting. Even with his great health, your eyes are bound to start having problems in your 70's.

I prefer a book myself. I've gotten several old Kindles from other people over the years and I've found other unintended uses for them. I only ever used one for a book, and that was back when I was taking mechatronics courses. Had a few Electronics, Mechanics and Engineering books on there as well as PDF files I made of my own notes that one of the teachers ended up using and making his pre-final-test study guide for the groups going forward. They serve a purpose for me here and there, but there's nothing like holding a paper book in your hands.

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Well, I guess I shouldn't have said politics. In my case it is mostly giving certain ladies a history lesson when it comes to First Nations. Say something wrong when I know the history and that really grinds my gears. So, yeah sometimes I have to bit my tongue. Unless I want a phone call telling me I shouldn't say certain things because certain people get their knickers in a twist.

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Interesting. I'm curious, since you've never mentioned it before... do you play with other Natives? Exclusively or a mix? I would assume at least a mix, just because I couldn't ever imagine my Grandma going to a group card game or mahjong game and speaking her mind about anything having to do with Native culture except for maybe when that one PBS show came out a few years back that we were talking about. But then again, I don't think I've ever actually known anybody in these parts who is Native, or known anybody who did. Probably met some in my life and didn't know it I'm sure, but most people in these parts don't walk around with signs telling you all about their origin story.

My grandma was funny, especially at the end when she wasn't even intending to be. Some of it got funnier as she started forgetting things bad and repeating the same thing 10 times in a conversation. Every fall, the last 10 years she was alive without fail, she'd recollect how the Chicago Tribune used to talk about how Summer isn't over just yet an we've still got "Injun Summer". Yeah... I know they did Grandma.

She'd say it once and that'd be it until next year. Until she started forgetting nearly 100% of everything short-term 60-80% of the days you'd talk to her, and she'd say that 10 times in a 30 minute phone call when Fall rolled around in between telling me for the 10th time that birds made a nest in the neighbor's gutters across the street.

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I know about the minefields. In the last few months I have had my boss try to convince me of certain things. If I try to give my opinion she just says well I don't know enough about it. So, I give up. No point.

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Yeah... Sometimes I think I should just go back to playing dumb. It's what I did when I was younger. The problem is that my "circle" isn't all that big and they all know better. What I've been doing these days is just trying to change the subject if politics comes up, and I make a habit of letting people know that I've been slowly tuning out and eliminating most of the world "news" from my daily life just because I don't even want to bother trying to filter out the noise and the bullshit anymore.

Half of what they say isn't ever true, and the half that ends up being true usually is the half that doesn't matter. And look what it does to you? Spits out a couple of lunatics like we've still got here crapping up all the boards with their daily chronic mental illness projections and an over-agitated Jack that don't speak too politely back at them even with a few ladies present.

I'm just kind of over it. I'd like to move on while I still have time to focus on things that I'm actually interested in and that bring me peace and a little more enjoyment of life.

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Well, to be honest I have thought some things about your guy. And I did think of you when that bill passed and others it will hurt.

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Not necessarily "hurt". At the end of the day, if I did die from a lack of health insurance, of course that would be on me. The rules have now changed (or will now change next year), and if I don't go along with the new rules, that would ultimately be by my own doing.

But I am in a unique position that I don't think many people fit. No kids and responsibilities. No rent/debt. No immediate need of cash or any reason to find a job other than to do more saving for the future, yet ages away still from drawing a Social Security check. Then diagnosed with an illness that is treated with a life-ruining price tag attached to saying alive if you don't have insurance.

So here's me. Alone. Somebody who is actually being forced back into a horrible low-wage work force and environment if he doesn't want to die.

That's my new normal.

Still worth it. Just hope I still feel that way 3 years from now.

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I love "Cool Hand Luke". Think that had to be the first Newman film I saw. But I also love "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid".

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Maybe I'll give Butch a watch some day. I know it's always on toplists. Don't know why I never watched it, but I really haven't watched many movies from that era of film, to be honest. Can you believe that I'm in my mid 40's and I've never once seen a Burt Reynold's movie from start to finish? I think he was in Boogie Nights if I remember right, so that might not be true. But I've never seen a movie of his when he was a big lead actor from end to end.

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I like to think my dad was a good role model. I spent a lot of time talking to him, so I did manage to learn from him. It wasn't so much any mistakes he made that got him thinking the way he did, but growing up a half-breed. The garbage that would of come his way because of his skin colour. That is why he taught me to see a person's actions and listen to how they speak and treat you before anything.

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Yeah. I think what most people don't realize after they've grown up and put up all the walls and boxed themselves up into all the little groups that they fit into is that human beings always find a way. I grew up in a few schools that were around 98% white, before all the real integration started happening here, and I got a bullied quite a bit when I was little. I didn't get my first growth spurt and working out until high school. In Grade 8 I was only 79 lbs. I wrestled 97lbs my freshman year of High School.

It wasn't until Senior Year when I was cutting weight to 145lbs and regularly weighed over 160 on the off season where I actually felt comfortable while being out. Took a lot of abuse and ridicule when I was a runt, and didn't really have anybody at home to talk about any of it. Didn't even share none of that with my brothers because I was in charge of them and didn't want to be looking weak in front of them.

And it wasn't like I got beat up. I didn't. I rarely got into a fight and just let the insults and bullshit fester until some poor bully kid said the wrong thing and found out what a monster I really was. Let's just say it was so bad on more than one occassion that I was the one to get in trouble despite not being the aggressor because the end result of what I did to them was so terrible.

The problem was we moved around enough where more than one person had to be taught that lesson when the cycle repeated at a new school.

The whole School setting that we just kind of let happen to everyone is really bullshit when you think about it. It's just putting a bunch of kids into a cage 5 days a week where maybe they learn how to read and do basic math if they're lucky while the parents who should be looking out for them are at work all day.

We were basically all white where I grew up and we were still pretty awful to each other. Look at the number of black people who shoot each other or kill random by-standards in cities like Chicago every single weekend. They care so little about "their own people" that innocents dying every weekend from black on black crime is the rule and not the exception.

Maybe it'd be different with Natives just because of how differently they still live their lives and their sense of family and community vs. pretty much everyone else's. But it would have to be because people who actually care about the kids are the ones who are around them every day when it matters. Otherwise, I think you'd probably be just as awful to each other when you were kids as any of the rest of us appear to be. I think it's just human nature, and without the proper guidance and leadership, that's how young people are going to behave. And if there isn't a real reason, or an "easily justifiable" one like skin color, they'll just make up any reason they can to assert dominance over each other.

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Yeah, having a stable home life as a child does make a difference. For me things went slightly sideways after my dad died. Not saying I got into trouble or anything after he died but I lost a very important person to me.

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Yeah. It sucks. Losing my friend's dad and then my grandma right after hit me really hard. Still haven't recovered, actually. I remember joking a few years ago that I'd better start talking to more people my age or younger because all the good people I know are gettin' up there. I knew it wasn't funny when I'd say it, but had to laugh since I knew it wouldn't be long. My friend's dad was the best person I've ever known in my life. Things just ain't been right since he's been gone.

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Learning is good. No matter what it is. We should always be open to new ideas and thoughts. I like to think I am still learning even now.

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There's always plenty to learn. Even if we've gotten old enough where we're stuck in our political/moral/spiritual ways and nothing wants to budge there, it's a good thing there's a million other things under the sun to be interested in.

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So true and painting everyone with same paint brush does not help.

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Real.

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No worries about me. I like my little crushes. Makes me think I am still a teenager.

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Originally posted by Brenda:
Oh, heck. I can remember when portable tape recorders first came out. We bought one and I can remember all of us learning how to use it. My mum trying to record herself singing Christmas carols. Only one problem with that. She couldn't carry a tune in a bucket. When you replayed the tape you could sort of hear my dad in the background laughing. She ignored them. A friend of my mum's had I do believe an old reel to reel recorder. I wasn't allowed to touch it when I was a kid. She showed me how it worked but that was all.

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Hah. I remember getting my first "portable" tape recorder. It was kind of a beast. Big red brick with beefy black buttons on the end that had a grey strap on it. I carried that thing around with me at least until the next Christmas. If I wasn't recording my brothers and I doing goofy stuff, I was using it to play the music I'd recorded off the radio. I loved that thing. Long gone along with all those tapes now. Sure wish out of all the stuff I'd gotten rid of over the years that I kept that stuff.

I don't think it was particularly "cheap" by the time I got one, but I'm sure that they'd come way down in price or I wouldn't have gotten it at the age I did. I was probably only 7 or 8 years old.

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Course I don't have an e-reader or a kindle. I love books, something you can actually hold and feel in my hands. That's probably why I have so many of them. I want that connection to the writer.

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Yeah. My old man made the switch to Kindle and he loves it. I know he's way older than you are. I think with him part of the reason it's good is because of the backlighting. Even with his great health, your eyes are bound to start having problems in your 70's.

I prefer a book myself. I've gotten several old Kindles from other people over the years and I've found other unintended uses for them. I only ever used one for a book, and that was back when I was taking mechatronics courses. Had a few Electronics, Mechanics and Engineering books on there as well as PDF files I made of my own notes that one of the teachers ended up using and making his pre-final-test study guide for the groups going forward. They serve a purpose for me here and there, but there's nothing like holding a paper book in your hands.

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Well, I guess I shouldn't have said politics. In my case it is mostly giving certain ladies a history lesson when it comes to First Nations. Say something wrong when I know the history and that really grinds my gears. So, yeah sometimes I have to bit my tongue. Unless I want a phone call telling me I shouldn't say certain things because certain people get their knickers in a twist.

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Interesting. I'm curious, since you've never mentioned it before... do you play with other Natives? Exclusively or a mix? I would assume at least a mix, just because I couldn't ever imagine my Grandma going to a group card game or mahjong game and speaking her mind about anything having to do with Native culture except for maybe when that one PBS show came out a few years back that we were talking about. But then again, I don't think I've ever actually known anybody in these parts who is Native, or known anybody who did. Probably met some in my life and didn't know it I'm sure, but most people in these parts don't walk around with signs telling you all about their origin story.

My grandma was funny, especially at the end when she wasn't even intending to be. Some of it got funnier as she started forgetting things bad and repeating the same thing 10 times in a conversation. Every fall, the last 10 years she was alive without fail, she'd recollect how the Chicago Tribune used to talk about how Summer isn't over just yet an we've still got "Injun Summer". Yeah... I know they did Grandma.

She'd say it once and that'd be it until next year. Until she started forgetting nearly 100% of everything short-term 60-80% of the days you'd talk to her, and she'd say that 10 times in a 30 minute phone call when Fall rolled around in between telling me for the 10th time that birds made a nest in the neighbor's gutters across the street.

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I know about the minefields. In the last few months I have had my boss try to convince me of certain things. If I try to give my opinion she just says well I don't know enough about it. So, I give up. No point.

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Yeah... Sometimes I think I should just go back to playing dumb. It's what I did when I was younger. The problem is that my "circle" isn't all that big and they all know better. What I've been doing these days is just trying to change the subject if politics comes up, and I make a habit of letting people know that I've been slowly tuning out and eliminating most of the world "news" from my daily life just because I don't even want to bother trying to filter out the noise and the bullshit anymore.

Half of what they say isn't ever true, and the half that ends up being true usually is the half that doesn't matter. And look what it does to you? Spits out a couple of lunatics like we've still got here crapping up all the boards with their daily chronic mental illness projections and an over-agitated Jack that don't speak too politely back at them even with a few ladies present.

I'm just kind of over it. I'd like to move on while I still have time to focus on things that I'm actually interested in and that bring me peace and a little more enjoyment of life.

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Well, to be honest I have thought some things about your guy. And I did think of you when that bill passed and others it will hurt.

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Not necessarily "hurt". At the end of the day, if I did die from a lack of health insurance, of course that would be on me. The rules have now changed (or will now change next year), and if I don't go along with the new rules, that would ultimately be by my own doing.

But I am in a unique position that I don't think many people fit. No kids and responsibilities. No rent/debt. No immediate need of cash or any reason to find a job other than to do more saving for the future, yet ages away still from drawing a Social Security check. Then diagnosed with an illness that is treated with a life-ruining price tag attached to saying alive if you don't have insurance.

So here's me. Alone. Somebody who is actually being forced back into a horrible low-wage work force and environment if he doesn't want to die.

That's my new normal.

Still worth it. Just hope I still feel that way 3 years from now.

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I love "Cool Hand Luke". Think that had to be the first Newman film I saw. But I also love "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid".

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Maybe I'll give Butch a watch some day. I know it's always on toplists. Don't know why I never watched it, but I really haven't watched many movies from that era of film, to be honest. Can you believe that I'm in my mid 40's and I've never once seen a Burt Reynold's movie from start to finish? I think he was in Boogie Nights if I remember right, so that might not be true. But I've never seen a movie of his when he was a big lead actor from end to end.

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I like to think my dad was a good role model. I spent a lot of time talking to him, so I did manage to learn from him. It wasn't so much any mistakes he made that got him thinking the way he did, but growing up a half-breed. The garbage that would of come his way because of his skin colour. That is why he taught me to see a person's actions and listen to how they speak and treat you before anything.

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Yeah. I think what most people don't realize after they've grown up and put up all the walls and boxed themselves up into all the little groups that they fit into is that human beings always find a way. I grew up in a few schools that were around 98% white, before all the real integration started happening here, and I got a bullied quite a bit when I was little. I didn't get my first growth spurt and working out until high school. In Grade 8 I was only 79 lbs. I wrestled 97lbs my freshman year of High School.

It wasn't until Senior Year when I was cutting weight to 145lbs and regularly weighed over 160 on the off season where I actually felt comfortable while being out. Took a lot of abuse and ridicule when I was a runt, and didn't really have anybody at home to talk about any of it. Didn't even share none of that with my brothers because I was in charge of them and didn't want to be looking weak in front of them.

And it wasn't like I got beat up. I didn't. I rarely got into a fight and just let the insults and bullshit fester until some poor bully kid said the wrong thing and found out what a monster I really was. Let's just say it was so bad on more than one occassion that I was the one to get in trouble despite not being the aggressor because the end result of what I did to them was so terrible.

The problem was we moved around enough where more than one person had to be taught that lesson when the cycle repeated at a new school.

The whole School setting that we just kind of let happen to everyone is really bullshit when you think about it. It's just putting a bunch of kids into a cage 5 days a week where maybe they learn how to read and do basic math if they're lucky while the parents who should be looking out for them are at work all day.

We were basically all white where I grew up and we were still pretty awful to each other. Look at the number of black people who shoot each other or kill random by-standards in cities like Chicago every single weekend. They care so little about "their own people" that innocents dying every weekend from black on black crime is the rule and not the exception.

Maybe it'd be different with Natives just because of how differently they still live their lives and their sense of family and community vs. pretty much everyone else's. But it would have to be because people who actually care about the kids are the ones who are around them every day when it matters. Otherwise, I think you'd probably be just as awful to each other when you were kids as any of the rest of us appear to be. I think it's just human nature, and without the proper guidance and leadership, that's how young people are going to behave. And if there isn't a real reason, or an "easily justifiable" one like skin color, they'll just make up any reason they can to assert dominance over each other.

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Yeah, having a stable home life as a child does make a difference. For me things went slightly sideways after my dad died. Not saying I got into trouble or anything after he died but I lost a very important person to me.

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Yeah. It sucks. Losing my friend's dad and then my grandma right after hit me really hard. Still haven't recovered, actually. I remember joking a few years ago that I'd better start talking to more people my age or younger because all the good people I know are gettin' up there. I knew it wasn't funny when I'd say it, but had to laugh since I knew it wouldn't be long. My friend's dad was the best person I've ever known in my life. Things just ain't been right since he's been gone.

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Learning is good. No matter what it is. We should always be open to new ideas and thoughts. I like to think I am still learning even now.

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There's always plenty to learn. Even if we've gotten old enough where we're stuck in our political/moral/spiritual ways and nothing wants to budge there, it's a good thing there's a million other things under the sun to be interested in.

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So true and painting everyone with same paint brush does not help.

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Real.

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No worries about me. I like my little crushes. Makes me think I am still a teenager.

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Keep on rockin' that Teen Beat magazine.

Who's on the cover this week?



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You're an idiot. Worry about your own party and stop crying about everything everyday.

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You and your fucking political party are Nazis.

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Shut up faggot.

You are irrelevant. Nobody cares about anything you or your so-called "intellectuals" who get everything wrong have to say anymore.

It's why you two goons are invading the Cinema boards today, because you're being ignored in the RWED as you should be.

You have nothing worthwhile to contribute to any conversation, and your entire propaganda Legacy Media machine is just about dead.

Nothing but clickbait bullshit out of you two morons from here on out.

You lost the culture war. You lost everything. And everyone hates you and people like you that can't stop talking about politics 24/7.

You are losers.

Grow up.



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What I've been doing these days is just trying to change the subject if politics comes up, and I make a habit of letting people know that I've been slowly tuning out and eliminating most of the world "news" from my daily life just because I don't even want to bother trying to filter out the noise and the bullshit anymore.

Half of what they say isn't ever true, and the half that ends up being true usually is the half that doesn't matter. And look what it does to you? Spits out a couple of lunatics like we've still got here crapping up all the boards with their daily chronic mental illness projections and an over-agitated Jack that don't speak too politely back at them even with a few ladies present.

I'm just kind of over it. I'd like to move on while I still have time to focus on things that I'm actually interested in and that bring me peace and a little more enjoyment of life.

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Who?

Anything you have to say on the topic might mean something in 2025 if you pretended to care even once about the issue in the last 12 years, mongoloid.

You're cooked. Nobody outside of your echo chamber pays any attention to any of you anymore.

It's why you need to debase yourself with clickbait all day everyday. Even your Legacy "News" won't report most of the lies and bullshit they used to feed you everyday anymore.

Everybody hates you and anybody who behaves like you in 2025. Your time is done. You need to go away now.

And if you won't do it yourselves, your just going to have to sit back and realize one day that everyone stopped paying attention to you a long time ago.

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Just keep showing everyone how evil you are. No skin off my sack, Satan.

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Told you so Gilligan.

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Keep it up Satan.

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... AND remember boys and girls, your school — like our country — is made up of Americans of many different races, religions and national origins. So ... if you hear anybody talk against a schoolmate or anyone else because of his religion, race or national origin — don't wait: tell him that kind of talk is Un-American.

HELP KEEP YOUR SCHOOL ALL AMERICAN!

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