RE: Not if the victim's White
October 8, 2013 at 2:45 pm
(October 8, 2013 at 1:58 pm)A Theist Wrote: I believe this incident goes beyond beyond simple name-calling and just someone getting their feelings hurt. We're talking about a guy who was possibly murdered because his skin was White.
If this is true, then it's a hate crime, and a terrible one, no question.
Quote: If the victim had been Black and the police changed their conclusions about the racial motivation you better believe that the race hustlers, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, would be organizing protests and street rallies as we speak.
And they would be right to do so.
Quote: Not to mention the far-left race fanatics on this forum posting what racists White people are.
I haven't seen that behavior here. I certainly have seen people acknowledging a stark fact: that there is much white-on-black racism that is very detrimental to society as a whole. I don't dispute that black-on-white racism exists- I've experienced it, although not violently. But white-on-black racism, while a bad thing, is hardly a major social ill. If you want to organize a street protest, go ahead, but it would seem that there are much larger social problems to spend your energy on.
Quote: There's a double standard among these guys when it comes to racial issues. Racism is racism no matter who it comes from and no matter how much someone tries to justify it.
True- racism is racism, and it's always harmful to society, even if it isn't bothersome to the victim. Putting it in perspective is useful, though. For instance, it is true that men are sometimes violently and harmfully raped by women. This is a bad and evil thing- a rapist is a rapist. But the context of the larger social ill- men raping women- means that in constructing our ethos, we put our energies behind the overwhelming social problem to try and end violence against women, or to try and end the damaging white-on-black racism that is still glaringly prevalent in our society. Should we ignore the raped man, or the murdered white man? Of course not. But the scales are tipped so extremely to the other end that calling it any kind of endemic "double standard" doesn't hold much weight.
