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Originally Posted by FAX
Hmmm. I didn't realize that the "goosebumps" thread was race-related. I haven't opened it for a long time, though, so I don't really know. Maybe it took a turn I didn't see.
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It was race related from the beginning. The article in the OP alludes to a race controversy that may or may not have led Coke to re-score the competition so that a black sorority would share the award with the white girls who originally won it. Coke claims they found and corrected a scoring error without explaining what that error was.
The difference between that thread and the Bootlegged thread is that no one went off on Wutamess claiming he was racist just for posting it the way people went after Bootlegged. Wutamess's thread never became contentious, but it was just as much about race as Bootlegged's was. It would be different if Bootlegged had started his thread with a racist rant or something, but he didn't. He just posted a race-related topic like Wutamess did. Of course, the video in Wutamess's thread was more interesting and had more sexy chicks in it than Bootlegged's picture of a menu so that's a difference too.