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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Yes, jackass. This is exactly what everyone is saying. You don't get it because when you read your own words above, all you see is:
"You're effectively saying that to allow a person's race to impact your bias toward the person renders one an evil, intentional racist. This would make it impossible to not be a very mean, horrible racist in regard to anyone of any race (unless you were blind). One would necessarily be a terrible, evil racist toward all races."
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If everyone everywhere is racist toward every race, which is the definition you’re offering, then the word has no real meaning. I honestly, truly, do not care what anyone thinks, and I do not have concern for people feeling bad about being called racists. The problem isn’t that your definition is an insult or accusation. I long ago grasped that argument. It’s that you’ve now create a word indistinguishable from “biased.” The word doesn’t mean anything anymore. You’re just saying everyone is biased. Seems kind of dumb, given people are all biased toward others based on appearance and background.
Italians, Irish, Spanish, Korean... Everybody has some bias toward everyone based on background. I understand your point. You’re missing mine. When everyone’s racist, no one’s racist.
ETA: I also will never accept the logic that the society and the invididual are indistinguishable. I’ll accept there’s substantial imprinting, of course, but there’s no way to throw human agency so entirely out the window.
ETA2: A definition that would also allow a white person to call a black person in this country a racist also strikes me too broad. And that is the logical extension of the definition offered. (You’ll try to carve around it, but it’s inescapable.)
