RE: More Race Hysteria from SJW's
October 9, 2017 at 1:35 pm
(This post was last modified: October 9, 2017 at 1:40 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(October 9, 2017 at 9:18 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(October 9, 2017 at 9:11 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: The KKK or Black Panthers would have identity politics, so they have that in common.
Maybe they could use that to come together.
You mean like people from the KKK being Republican and people from the BP being Democrat? Does identity politics mean that you lean a certain way politically because of the group you are in?
Not to my mind. I see ID politics as filtering one's observations about the political events of the day through the lens of the group with which one identifies. Christians viewing abortion law through the lens of their imbibed views of how Christians are supposed to feel; racists seeing the events of the day through the lens of their racism and how said events might impact them.
(October 9, 2017 at 9:35 am)RoadRunner79 Wrote:(October 9, 2017 at 8:57 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: This is silly. For all the times the bigots of the world say "Islamophobia" is not racism ... here we have someone writing that disliking someone for holding a point of view is "racism".
I don't think that I said anything about disliking someones point of view as being racist.
What I mean, is that when someone sees racism in other groups for everything, and that when inane things become racist and movement for the SJW to rise up against, then I think that it both unhealthy, and a form of racism.
This is not to be confused with being against actual racism, but imposing it, where there is not justification on a routine basis.
Except that thoughts don't have a race. It follows that disliking someone for what they think is not inherently racist.
I think the word you're looking for is "oversensitive." Racism has a specific meaning which has nothing to do with what the person being disliked is thinking, but rather, what race or ethnicity he or she belongs to. Seeing racism where it doesn't exist is not racist. Even the act of speaking out against perceived racism is not racist, in the same sense that speaking out against perceived conservatism is not conservative.