Bandorr said:
May be the first time i've seen that "I'm not a racist" not be immediately followed by "I have a black friend". "It's despicable and narrow minded." - How ironic... |
Mr Puggsly said:
Weird response, no actual points were made. Its like you just wanted to show you disagree and you're morally superior but no substance. Just to mix it up I say, "I have black friends but I'm incredibly racist." |
The point is that the definition of racism or any -isms for that matter is a true believe in the inferiority of a race, gender or whatever and the intent of disparaging said race, gender or whatever.
That means it is absolutely impossible to be "accidentally racist". I don't believe a race is inferior and I don't intent to disparage them, therefore I am not racist no matter how often I use "naughty words". I may be an asshole by deliberately offending some people but I'm certainly not racist. And if it is truly a mistake then I'm not even an asshole. Then again, i would only be called an asshole by people who desperately want to be offended so it doesn't really matter either way. I'm just a poor schmuck who lives in a society that doesn't know how to spell "intent" or "context" and would rather witch hunt people to death before doing a tiny bit of self reflection.
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