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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
If I say I hate Asians, I'm a racist. If I say I hate Catholics, I'm a religious bigot. And I'd say the former is far worse than the latter as the Asian has no choice but to be what he is. The Catholic has taken some step which can be undone. Both are odious forms of hatred, but one is more cruel and arbitrary than the other.
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Again, this is bizarre. "All you have to do to make me stop hating you is change your fundamental belief system so that's not as bad as racism" is a meaningless distinction to most normal people.
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And in the US, with our legacy of slavery, and jailing of Japanese in internment camps, racism is a word with very unique meaning.
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So unique you can get it from dictionary.com. ETA: Oops! Webster's. It was elsewhere someone was citing dictionary.com.
