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Mely wrote: "As in nonmetaphorical racial stereotyping, whiteness is treated as the human default and differences from whiteness are treated as aberrations, flaws, signs of violence, inhumanity, lack of control, and threateningness."
District 9 2009
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Mely wrote: "As in nonmetaphorical racial stereotyping, whiteness is treated as the human default and differences from whiteness are treated as aberrations, flaws, signs of violence, inhumanity, lack of control, and threateningness."
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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Did she “exaggerate” the threateningness of those death threats?
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I think they like the non-threateningness of this guy's approach.
StyleyGeek becomes one of THOSE teachers(?) StyleyGeek 2008
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In fact, with respect specifically to his race, I would wager that Barack Obama is now up into Bill Cosby / Cliff Huxtable territory in terms of his non-threateningness to all Americans regardless of his or their respective race.
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In fact, with respect specifically to his race, I would wager that Barack Obama is now up into Bill Cosby / Cliff Huxtable territory in terms of his non-threateningness to all Americans regardless of his or their respective race.
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In fact, with respect specifically to his race, I would wager that Barack Obama is now up into Bill Cosby / Cliff Huxtable territory in terms of his non-threateningness to all Americans regardless of his or their respective race.
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The race stays close, and Obama isn't becoming any blacker guest-post yesterday at HughHewitt. com compares Barack Obama to Bill Cosby / Cliff Huxtable in terms of his familiarity and, insofar as his race is concerned, non-threateningness.
BeldarBlog 2008
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The race stays close, and Obama isn't becoming any blacker guest-post yesterday at HughHewitt. com compares Barack Obama to Bill Cosby / Cliff Huxtable in terms of his familiarity and, insofar as his race is concerned, non-threateningness.
BeldarBlog 2008
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To get a message across, black professionals are always thinking about the perfect balance of assertiveness and non-threateningness. "
Whites' Great Hope? 2007
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