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Originally Posted by Adder
Why do you think that? Is it just an inherent belief that people are good? That doesn't really sound like you to me, but I'm struggling with why you have such a hard time facing the obvious.
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Because it is insane. This would mean that people who marched with MLK in Birmingham were racist.
It's also illogical and impossible. Try to make the case that all humans born into a racist system are inherently racist. Try to make the case that all individuals of age of reason in the US (I'm guessing 200 million people) are racist.
A person's biases are not controlled by the culture into which he was born. (You might want to read some studies on nature vs. nurture, where nurture is losing badly under current scholarship.) The inner workings of his head may not be determined or labeled based on the general behaviors of the society around him. If this were true, all Germans would be Nazis. (Arguably, all French would be Nazis, as they lived under Nazi rule.) All Italians of Mussolini's time would be fascists. Your extreme, rote application would never be accepted in any rigorous analysis. It's new agey, vague, and tenuous at best. It has the ring of humanities professors and sociologists using soft science as though it were hard science. This has led to a lot of bizarre thinking, and it is indeed bizarre thinking to advocate for the phrase "All US citizens are racist."
The system may be racist. This does not mean all bodies born into are racist. If you argue for that proposition, you argue something objectively absurd.
