(November 7, 2022 at 7:05 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote:(November 7, 2022 at 5:31 pm)Irreligious Atheist Wrote: I don't believe you. You don't believe they are sub-human in the same way supremacists think blacks are. You may really dislike them because they think really bad things, but you don't literally think they are sub-human, because they weren't born with racist beliefs, and they are also capable of change. They are as human as any other. It's the human condition to believe dumb shit and to be tribal. It's about as human as you can get. Humans really suck.
Here's something you might find interesting, IA. Fundamentally, Boru may believe exactly that, in exactly the same way. You see, biological supremacy is completely toxic in society. It really only survives in small enclaves. Contemporary white supremacist shit is cultural. So, for example, a person feels superior to another person because they believe that their culture is superior to the other culture. White culture to black culture, for example. They feel justified in considering members of that culture sub-human because, in violating basic principles of human decency we all claim to share - they are committed to victimizing other human beings - namely, in their telling..ofc..the white man.
Boru, or lets say a person that believes as much so it isn't personal, can believe this as well. That their culture, broadly speaking human or humanitarian culture..is superior to white supremacist culture. That we might justifiably describe a person as somehow sub-human when they, in violation of basic principles of human decency which we claim to all share, are committed to victimizing other human beings.
The main difference between the two, is that one of those types of people are right, and the other type are white supremacist loons.
Aww. *goes all blushy*
Boru
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