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Khuutra said:
Kantor said:
Khuutra said:
Kantor said:

If that law was followed to the letter, black and white people would have had equal rights.

But, fine. Forced segregation is also racist. Optional segregation, however, is not.

But forced segregation does not constitute "harm" under your given definition. Am I to assume, then, that a law need not be actively harmful to be racist? If so, why would this be?

Segregation breeds racial hatred, which breeds harm.

Desegregation breeds hatred too, which means it breeds harm. Does that mean that Desegregation is racist?

Desegregation doesn't breed hatred. Segregation breeds hatred, but controls it. Desegregation releases hatred.

But it's a little unfair to call the reversal of racism racist. By your logic, it's when you STOP hitting somebody on the head with a baseball hat that he becomes angry at you. No, it's just that when you stop, he has the ability to attack you.

EDIT: To give a less meandering response, I said that all racist laws caused harm. Not that all laws that caused harm were racist.



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