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Zhenja92 t1_jczzgbk wrote

Back to my original question - have you or your wife been personally hassled in Ellensburg. I am not denying that there is undoubtedly been issues here - but I think that telling people to avoid coming into to a town to get Ice Cream from a local shop because you/your wife had bad experiences in a totally different community and thus you assume that all small towns are inherently threatening is not that different from the logic of someone who says I once worked with (a black, a woman, a jew, a hispanic) and they didn't do a good job so I don't want to work with (blacks, women, jews, hispanics).

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oldgar t1_jd0z885 wrote

Yes, Ellensburg, but I never said don't go there, only gave a facetious warning to people of color. Wasn't my wife, her brother was driving and I was the passenger in a private parking lot and police pulled us over and stuck him in the back of the police car for twenty minutes, they never said a word to me. I asked him what was going on and he said happens often, let's just go. So we did, but he didn't look happy and his face was very red.

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