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marv
Mountain climber
Bay Area
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Nov 25, 2010 - 04:09pm PT
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exact same answer as "Why are most male college graduates dorky white guys"
seriously.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Nov 25, 2010 - 05:09pm PT
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t*r
"entitled attitude" discussed where?
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Nov 25, 2010 - 05:11pm PT
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Prezwoodz, I didn't know. When exactly did you become black?
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Rhodo-Router
Gym climber
wussing off the topout on Roadside Attraction
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Nov 25, 2010 - 05:24pm PT
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The entitlement discussion is pretty much as harihari said, Ron, do we have to paint you a picture?
I'm one of them and I think hh nailed it. It's the Bwana Syndrome.
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Ricky D
Trad climber
Sierra Westside
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Nov 25, 2010 - 05:28pm PT
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Too small for football.
Too short for basketball.
Nobody played soccer in 1978.
Don't like sharks and can't swim for sh#t - so no surfing.
Really did well at wrestling - but people think it's ghey.
Climbing seemed the only thing left at the time.
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Ricky D
Trad climber
Sierra Westside
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Nov 25, 2010 - 05:38pm PT
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What the real question should be is...
"Why did so many climbers end up being engineers?".
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Nov 25, 2010 - 05:58pm PT
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what steve says - a lot of it has to do with who historically has had access to what privileges.
t*r, you are the perfect of example of what you claim to be against. An arrogant whitey.
That is NOT what Steve's point was. You look at everything through a lens of 'downtrodden', 'minority', or 'underprivaledged'.
Bullshit!
Many "minorities" have equal access to the sport. Most choose not to engage in it for the same reason other 'whities' don't. "I'm afraid of heights" or "that looks dangerous" or "why would you want to do that".
STFU!!!
Skippy eloquatly posited that;
Thinking inside the box can be an easy way to life. After all, you can trust that others have thought things through for you. But, when you step out and start to think for yourself, even the least among us can achieve great things.
Each and every one of us have within ourselves a brand new box to share with the world.
And knubskull replied;
^^^ an excellent example of the entitled attitude we've discussed
You really piss me off sometimes....
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Nov 25, 2010 - 06:03pm PT
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what steve says - a lot of it has to do with who historically has had access to what privileges.
t*r, you are the perfect of example of what you claim to be against. An arrogant whitey.
That is NOT what Steve's point was. You look at everything through a lens of 'downtrodden', 'minority', or 'underprivaledged'.
Bullshit!
Many "minorities" have equal access to the sport. Most choose not to engage in it for the same reason other 'whities' don't. "I'm afraid of heights" or "that looks dangerous" or "why would you want to do that".
STFU!!!
Skippy eloquatly posited that;
Thinking inside the box can be an easy way to life. After all, you can trust that others have thought things through for you. But, when you step out and start to think for yourself, even the least among us can achieve great things.
Each and every one of us have within ourselves a brand new box to share with the world.
And knubskull replied;
^^^ an excellent example of the entitled attitude we've discussed
You really piss me off sometimes....
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Ricky D
Trad climber
Sierra Westside
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Nov 25, 2010 - 06:05pm PT
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^^^^^
Blue...???
Where you been man?
Or more to the point...what therapy did you undergo while you were gone???
'Cause that last post was so humane and eloquent I can't help but feel that your inner liberal has at last been freed.
Of course, it could just be the after affects of Tryptophan.
Happy Thanksgiving dude!
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The Guy
Trad climber
Portland, OR
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Nov 25, 2010 - 06:05pm PT
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%100 Mexican climber here. I live in Portland, OR and have only seen one other border brother pulling down. Donde estas amigo?!!!
Anyways, yes climbers are mostly white or asian. At least what I have seen. All climbers are dorks. Don't deny it. Ask someone.
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Ricky D
Trad climber
Sierra Westside
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Nov 25, 2010 - 06:07pm PT
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I've been to Portland - where the hell do you find a decent taqueria in that white bread town?
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Ricky D
Trad climber
Sierra Westside
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Nov 25, 2010 - 06:16pm PT
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"i grew up in poverty."
Is that anywhere near South Lake Tahoe?
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Nov 25, 2010 - 06:20pm PT
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Have a good one too, Ricky. Tell Dawn I said "hey" and give Bear a pat on the head for me. Cheers!
i'm not white! and i'm not from the entitled social class we've been discussing. not at all. i grew up in poverty.
You're a fool and yet you think you're so smart by appearing compassionate. I'm not saying you're stupid, just foolish and naive. They've reeled you in and you don't even know it.
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Nov 25, 2010 - 06:35pm PT
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And if you're not white and "privaleged", then what are you exactly? You appear to be so.
I'm not saying I am privaleged, although I'm a proud whitey of Italian/Dutch descent. But I fail to see how ethnicity has anything to do with climbing. It takes little money (despite eveyone bitching how expensive it is) to climb. It just takes a will to do it.
Many don't have the desire or the will. Nothing wrong with that. It's a funky pursuit that many call crazy.
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Nov 25, 2010 - 07:01pm PT
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Yeah, so? Do you have a relevant comment on this idiotic topic?
And the more I think about it, I tend to suffer fools less when I'm not inbibing ze golden nectar.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Nov 25, 2010 - 07:07pm PT
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Because white dorks see climbing as a viable alternative to growing up while most other (dorks) have better sense.
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Nov 25, 2010 - 07:12pm PT
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Interesting point, Ron. Probably even a degree of truth in it. Just look at the array of "pro" climbers.
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GDavis
Social climber
SOL CAL
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Nov 25, 2010 - 07:26pm PT
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t*r is black?
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Nov 25, 2010 - 07:39pm PT
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Y'all are wrong. She's african/latina/persio-arabian/kulak...
She has suffered all at the hand of the useless whitey! White Persecution!!!!
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murcy
climber
sanfrancisco
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Nov 25, 2010 - 08:43pm PT
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Just speaking for myself, I really couldn't pull off being a suave Polynesian woman.
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