[quote name='Ameroca' timestamp='1323593437' post='2873735']
What's peculiar is that you equate malleable taste in entertainment, and potential derision from people who do not share the same tastes, with the systematic oppression of peoples based on the social construct into which they were born. No one has ever been denied life, liberty, equality, or even happiness due to their fondness for this television show, while people at this moment suffer from this and more merely because of the color of their skin, including in societies that have claimed to banish this boogieman. By saying they are one and the same you are inherently devaluing the hardships of the latter and aid in the denial of its existence.
You are literally saying that a person thinking your leisure activity is childish is similar to the vast inherited economic and social structures that exist that keep many people in poverty.
This idea, which you've constructed to rationalize your toys while obviously not considering its ramifications, disgusts me. Much, much more than any I feel for your enjoyment of a particular television show.
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You make an excellent argument, and I agree that disliking Ponies is hardly of the magnitude of racism. Gross overreaction on your part, but highly insensitive on his.