(August 18, 2017 at 2:52 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote:(August 18, 2017 at 2:04 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Hmm, I guess I don't follow. Racism is defined as prejudice against someone of another race. I don't see how a person's assessment can be racist if it had nothing to do with any sort of prejudice against another race.
A person may not be a racist (meaning they may not overtly hate another race) but they can still do racist things, or follow a racist ideology.
If you lean a certain way politically, and dogmatically follow a racist revision of history, you may not be a racist, but not correcting yourself when someone points out to you how the revision of history that is being purported by Nazis, white supremacists, the KKK, Donald Trump, and white nationalists is objectively racist, and your political dogmas are more important than your desire not to act or believe in a racist way....
...then you're a racist?
(sorry, trying to understand exactly what you're saying)
"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
