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Your first paragraph hits the nail perfectly on the head.
I don't know why they just won't own it. If you're a racist, be proud of your distinction and ride with it. Don't try to normalize it so as to avoid any fallout from the position you've taken. If it's such a principled stance, carry that flag and let everyone know that's where you stand.
Exactly. It's outlandish what lengths the racists on this board/site go to in order to run from what they are. Man up! You're a racist! Just admit it, and don't try to trivialize the moral repugnance of what racism is by reasoning that "duh, everybody's a racist". No, they aren't.
Give me the conservative position on why black poverty is 3 times the rate of white poverty and why unemployment is twice as high. If you or any conservative can answer that without it inferring that blacks are inherently somehow less intelligent, less responsible, less loving and less hardworking....I will join you in the condemnation of the claim as well.
I prefer to focus on solutions rather than blame. The best solution to poverty is education.
And BTW, black people are NOT inherently less of anything and the conservative position on poverty does not assume so.
I think suggesting that EVERYONE is racist might be a strategy used by the demographic that usually gets accused to "normalize" the behavior so that their group may avoid the moral injury of the association.
I often find in debates the first strategy is to deny that racism is a problem or issue. When that strategy fails then the strategy is to argue that blacks are just as racist, if not more or argue that everyone is racist, thus removing any perceptions of moral inferiority as it relates to the issue of race.
This tactic is known as goal-post moving / special pleading.
I don't think everyone is 'racist", I think "bigoted" would be a better term.
Yes, secretly, all people have irrational dislikes of certain other people for any number of reasons ~ I think it is human nature. We are harwired for it. I like to think I am open minded and as a nu-age hippy, love all people, but occasionally I catch myself thinking things that go against that.
I don't think everyone is 'racist", I think "bigoted" would be a better term.
Yes, secretly, all people have irrational dislikes of certain other people for any number of reasons ~ I think it is human nature. We are harwired for it. I like to think I am open minded and as a nu-age hippy, love all people, but occasionally I catch myself thinking things that go against that.
I don't harbor irrational dislike of people based on melanin content, sorry.
I don't harbor irrational dislike of people based on melanin content, sorry.
So, you do for other reasons, then?
That is why I said "a number of reasons" in my post.
No need to apologize. You're just being honest
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