USFREEDOM911 (07-22-2019)
Because too many people use it as an insult.
'Racism' and 'bigotry' have a very specific meaning related to a logical fallacy.
In logic, there is a fallacy known as a compositional error. It works like this:
You have a bag of marbles. You pull out a white marble. You pull out a 2nd marble and it's also white. You conclude the bag contains nothing but white marbles.
The equation for this fallacy is ((A)->pA & (A)->pA)->(A=>pA)
The thing you are examining is marbles. That is the class of the object. The property you are examining is the color. By making such an erroneous conclusion as a proof, you wrong, since the bag may contain marbles of any color. You just don't know it. You simply assume all of them are white.
The compositional error in and of itself is a fallacy (an error in logic, similar to a math error). If the class is people, then the error is also called 'bigotry'. If the property is a genetic trait and is being used to denigrate the class, then the error becomes 'racism'.
No event is racist or bigoted. The error is formed out an erroneous conclusion caused by extending the properties of a class improperly to all object of that class or to the class itself.
Thus, to say that a man is 'white' or 'black' is simply noting a property. That is not racist. To use a word in a derogatory manner such as 'cracker' or 'nigger' is racism, even though 'nigger' simply means 'black'. It is the derogatory intent that is important here.
USFREEDOM911 (07-22-2019)
There's plenty of it. Every race has individuals in it that condemn another race just on the property of skin color. It crosses all political boundaries.
That said, it is the Democrats and other liberals that constantly make race an issue politically. That in and of itself is racism.
There is nothing to debate. Trump is a racist and so are many of his supporters.
It is not misused, it is not fallaciously asserted. It simply is. That it is an insult is not
our problem. If you are insulted, good. Maybe there is hope for you.
It's interesting, the other day TTQ64 wrote that if you think the Squad is far left and if you don't support free education, free health care and reparations then you support racism. And she included white liberals in that because she was speaking directly to a white liberal poster on this board. By her definition Micawber is a racist.
I found it quite amusing to see liberals who love calling others racist get called racist themselves.
Some good points..
Ppl used to say something like "you'll know it, when it happens to you", but maybe that isn't as true as it once was??
Racism of one sort or another does seem to be a catch all for many things...
Sometimes you just can't win: you voted for trump or Obama you're a fuckin racist, you didn't vote for Obama or trump, you're a fuckin racist..
Some folks are chill & just don't let shit/non-shit bother them, a few are hypersensitive & everything bothers them...
Ppl are ppl, & that isn't necessarily always a good thing.. Que sera sera
"There is no question former President Trump bears moral responsibility. His supporters stormed the Capitol because of the unhinged falsehoods he shouted into the world’s largest megaphone," McConnell wrote. "His behavior during and after the chaos was also unconscionable, from attacking Vice President Mike Pence during the riot to praising the criminals after it ended."
does it need to be proved?.....given the fact that Obama had a couple years of experience as a community organizer, one term as a state senator and half a term as a federal senator, can you really pretend to yourself that he would have been nominated, let alone elected to the presidency if he was not anointed to be"THE FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT"?.......
Bill (07-22-2019)
Sirthinksalot (07-22-2019)
Good points. And there is also the perception of racism. There was a TV show ("Black and White"?) involving a black couple and white couple. They would make up each couple like the other race to let them experience how that race is treated.
In one episode the black guy was dressed as himself while the white guy was made up as black. They were walking down the sidewalk together and some white people coming toward them stepped off the sidewalk as they met. The black guy saw that as racism (they didn't want to get too close to two black guys) while the white guy just saw it as moving aside so they didn't run into each other.
Bill (07-22-2019)
And we don't care that you don't care and we won't desist because it's true. You support a racist president and don't call him out
you are a racist. There, I said it again. And nobody will ever stop doing it until you stop being one.
See how that works?
Now if you do want me to stop calling you a racist, there is a way. 1. Say you disavow racism against minorities.
2. Admit Trump is a racist. 3. Support Trump by saying you wish he was not a racist but you want the tax cut and the macho bullshit
stuff and abortion or whatever.
But be honest. That is the key. Stop doing the tribe thing and be honest. Your party is incapable of honesty in fact anymore. Now your
party fights every battle, denies every argument, never cedes an inch, even the indisputable points. It's disgusting.
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