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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I could not possibly call you a racist for this incident, or anything like it. The proper description that fits is "Person who had a racist thought."
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Why are you so invested in this distinction? A person who has a racist thought is, on some level, a racist.
You're stuck on Hank not being a bad person, because he's aware of and tries to counteract his racists thoughts. But he can't possibly do that if he doesn't recognize them for what they are.
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This gets to the meat of semantic and logical problems with loose and lazy use of the term, "racist."
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It's not lose and lazy. It's holding all of us accountable for our crap. Loose and lazy is excusing it, like you're doing.
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The accurate statement is, "everybody in the US lives in a racist system." This is fair.
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It funny that what you think is "fair" is to absolve everyone of personal responsibility.
