(August 18, 2017 at 3:11 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote:(August 18, 2017 at 3:08 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: But you can point something out to a person and they can still not agree with you. Maybe they just genuinely don't agree that their view of history is incorrect and objectively racist.
Yeah, and someone can disagree with me when I insist the Holocaust happened. Should I refrain from calling that person an anti-semite?
Well, I don't think that's an equivalent analogy. That would be like saying slavery never happened, not that the war wasn't about slavery.
But actually, I would refrain from calling that person anti semite. IMHO, if someone honestly believes the holocaust was made up, that just makes them a cuckoo conspiracy theorist. It doesn't indicate that they're prejudice against Jewish people, in my opinion.
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