Calling someone a nigger or calling someone a racist is basically the same thing. Whichever you do, you are floating around in the world of racism in your thoughts. If you keep floating there, nothing is ever going to get better.

This post was edited by Ulfus on Nov 14 2014 04:37pm

If the person that was offended at racism actually understood that race is a baseless concept, they would not get offended. Which means that if someone got offended at racism, they dont understand this and therefore they are racists themselves. Subtle racism is just as bad as blatant racism. Affirmative racism is just as bad as blatant racism.

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the two idea are not even in the same boat.

there actually at either ends of the rope.

This post was edited by card_sultan on Nov 14 2014 05:28pm

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Baffle them with Bullshit.

This post was edited by card_sultan on Nov 14 2014 06:02pm

There are multiple fallacies in there.
There are plenty of reasons to be offended by racism that don't include you being a racist yourself.
If someone calls you a racial slur there is (sometimes) malicious intent there. Being offended when someone insults you is a natural reaction.
Racism could also be conveyed in treating people of a certain race in a shitty way. Are only racists offended when someone treats someone poorly based on their race? of course not.

'Race' also isn't a baseless concept. Not sure how you came up with that one. Different populations of Humans adapted to their environments in different ways and they can exhibit physical differences.

How would being offended at racism constitute racism by itself? It doesn't. How would not knowing something that isn't true constitute racism? That doesn't make sense either.



This is an opinion that is probably a bit too strongly worded and absolutist for my tastes, but I think you are on to something there.
I would agree that subtle racism can be just be just as bad as blatant racism, but as a whole there are several reasons blatant racism could be considered worse (at the very least in specific instances, if not also overall. i.e. public lynchings could reasonably be considered worse than responding slightly differently to people of color), depending on your preferences.

I would also agree that someone reacting to racism against some people by institutionalizing racism against others is bad.
Connecting that back to the first part of your post, being offended by racism can lead to racism in some specific instances.

This post was edited by cambovenzi on Nov 14 2014 06:08pm

well, there are black people and then there are niggas. they are different types of people