Can't tell if the world is full of white knights now or if people are just this fucking thin skinned...
I can assure you I am far from either. If you actually bothered to think about what I wrote, specifically the last couple responses where I clarified myself, you'd see my concern has little to do with either of those things.
The point camo makes about a lot of racism being "fake" has a lot of truth to it. And I find them deplorable.
However by ignoring the people who truly are victimized, they only will find support among the group who use it as a weapon in arguments, and the very thing your against is supported because you play directly into their hand.
My point was if you actually try to be empathetic when someone makes a comment claiming racism, it's not terribly challenging to make the distinction. But ignoring it outright because you think they all are the "bad" group does not make it go away either.
A very intelligent series of posts naxin (right back to your first long one). I appreciate what you've attempted to articulate (and done about as well as anyone could).
Camo, you're a real interesting fellow but good grief are you an arrogant individual who is completely and utterly clueless on many fundamentals of the human condition...
Fortunately, actual racism is so rare now that one can blow it off and move on to greener pastures quite easily
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But I'm the racist simply becasue I was born white and I have common-sense enough to own guns and know how to use them...
...so clueless in fact, I'm not even going to attempt to debate such concepts with you.
The key word (which naxin highlighted) is "empathy" and you have very little of it or indeed enough EQ to understand that fact. I suggest you go out into the world without your guns sometime and learn a bit about love. It could change your life for the better in ways you cannot begin to imagine.
