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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Is this confirmation that if mmmm spends more time in the Deep South he'll be as big a twat as you?
eta: no insult intended to mmmmm. His last post on the subject was thoughtful and considered, unlike the general bitch-fest that seems to have been unleashed on him by those who seem to think they know everything about his life, including where he has lived, from seeing him on a chatboard.
There are still plenty of nasty, vicious, racist and homophobic comments made, and that's true in the Deep South and in San Francisco and in every place that is geographically or culturally in between. (Yes, in San Francisco. Homophobes tend to get nastier when thay are closer to gay people.) But to suggest that it is exactly at the same level as it used to be is, in my view, unrealistic.
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Stop it. You choose to frame the argument in the way he wants it framed. It's easy to sound righteous that way.
I forget what he was talking about now, but he said something like, "things aren't that racist." His point was, overall, racism isn't as bad as it used to be? No one is arguing that. I think ncs said that in a few places in the country that she is familiar with, it is just as prevalent as it was in his 80s example.
The point is, everything is relative. When mmmmmmmm2353209845 says "things aren't that racist," we're not thinking, "Well, historically speaking, he's absolutely right. Racism was far more prevalent just 20 years ago." That's a given and frankly, he's wasting his breath talking about how things have changed. It really just seems to be a vehicle for him to show everyone how enlightened he is. Whatever.
What a normal person would take from "things aren't that racist" is, "according to one's everyday experiences, there really isn't much racism." I think people may disagree with that based on their own experiences. nCs or fringe saying that they do in fact still experience racism or homophobia or whatever, based on where they live (which isn't where he lives) is no big deal.
TM
