(August 20, 2017 at 10:52 am)Anomalocaris Wrote:(August 20, 2017 at 10:16 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I was watching a reality show the other day where a group of Americans are put in a resort in Mexico. One of the guys on the show was wearing a shirt that had little sombreros printed all over it. He was like "I'm in Mexico so I'm wearing my sombreros shirt!" The next day, when I was listening to a podcast where the host (a white girl) was recapping the show, she started going on about how racist the guy was to have made that comment. I mean, really? There are plenty of legitimate instances to call someone a racist (the supremacists in Charlottesville are an extreme testimony to that). When it gets tossed around it loses some of it's ugliness and shock value for the times when it is actually warranted.
Yeah, The word racists really loses all of its ugliness and shock value when someone to call people flying Nazi flags racists. After all, not one of them has gassed a Jew or built a shower connected to a crematorium.
And which member of kkk Had ever whipped a slave to death?
I mean really.
I specifically said the supremacists are extreme examples of racism.
Do you think the guy's comment wearing the sombrero shirt was racist? If not, then I don't see what you would disagree with on my post.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh
-walsh