[split] PSA: Hate Speech (discussion of video etc)

[Yonadav]

Now hold on there, Thena. I have not adamantly said that the guy didn't mean his racist slur. He might have. I don't know. I know that people say horrible things when they are angry-- both black people and white people. Black people have called me horrible names, and I have never assaulted any of them for it. So I'm sorry, but I don't see this white guy who said the racial slur as being any different than the black people that I have heard using racial slurs. It's the same thing, and I wish that everyone would knock it off.

First of all, I'll remind you that I've made it quite clear that I don't think that assaulting someone is  the appropriate response to be called a slur multiple times in this thread.

However, I did make it known that I do regard "some old guy" as a racist instigator, which you apparently to take tremendous issue with. Your reasoning essentially amounted to "Those who use slurs aren't really racist; they're just "angry", to "Everyone's racist, really" to "Well no...not really" and back around to more Whataboutism all in an effort to have me parrot your your narrative that black and whites in the US essentially experience racism at he same level. You simply cannot abide my saying that this guy or any other white guy is racist without me qualifying it by saying that white folks have it just as bad if not worse.

Well I don't believe that, Yon. Not in general terms.

It is what it was.

No, I wasn't engaging in whataboutism. A person who uses a racial slur in anger might or might not be a genuine racist. I simply can't tell from a single incident. I think that black people and white people both experience racism, but they experience it differently. I think that black people experience a lot more of it. And more forms of it. I haven't said that the black experience of racism and the white experience of it are on the same level. Let's talk without putting words into each other's mouths, Thena.