Definition of a racist

[T. A. Gardner]

As an example of a racist on this board, I'd say that Text Drivers are Killers is a good example. His posts often directly impugn people based on their ethnicity, heritage, lineage, or genetic make up. I suspect he would even agree and admit to that.

Here's an example of that:

the average black IQ is 65. They cannot be educated. All welfare for blacks must end. That may send them back to africa.

 

[evince]

A racist is someone by words and/or actions used against another either negatively or positively that differentiates that person based on their ethnicity, heritage, lineage, or genetic make up.

Note how I didn't use the word "racist" to define a racist (Kendi, the referenced source in the OP does--repeatedly). Using that word to define a racist is a logical fallacy in circular reasoning. That is, evince's argument (and Kendi's) is that someone is a racist because they say racist things. That means that whatever evince wants to claim is racist makes someone a racist. There is no attempt to specify what actually constitutes a racist statement. Instead, it's a case of I know it when I hear it (or see it).

too is wrong. Racism is an idea, a thought. It isn't a physical thing. You can't touch racism. You can't point to an object and say that object is racism. Sure, a physical object can have qualities that make it racist but the idea or thought that went into making that object is racism, not the object itself.
Thus, one can be anti-racist in thought even if they don't act. Failure to act can be attributed to other reasons such as fear of retribution. That is, someone may be anti-racist and not want to get into a physical altercation with another person that is spewing racist statements (as defined above). That doesn't make the person unwilling to enter a confrontation racist, that's an absurd proposition. It is another fallacy reducing the argument to the absurd.

An example of that would be to be non-racist / anti-racist you have to be willing to suffer personal injury or even death taking on a racist. Anything less and you too are a racist. That's what evince claims above.

Evince's argument is false. It uses a false definition, then uses more logical fallacies to try and force anyone accepting it into a straight jacket of actions to prove their acceptance of the original false definition, possibly at the risk of injury or death.

Ibram X. Kendi's book How to be an Anti-Racist is little more than a puerile exercise in academic fraud that is easily demolished when reason is applied to it. The man is an academic lightweight of no credibility based on the poor reasoning he has shown in his works and in person.

“Likewise, evince's claim that if you don't physically act against racism makes you racist.”



If you see a murder and dont call the police you just aided the murderers


When you see racism and just walk past as if there is no racism


You can be morally charged as a racist


Your single definition designed to clear you of your racism doesn’t matter


SOCIETY and its consensus on your racism does matter


The Republican Party is racist


Anyone who defends the Republican party’s racism is racist


The Republican Party repeating that someone else put the ho hoes down their pants is bullshit

 

[evince]

As an example of a racist on this board, I'd say that Text Drivers are Killers is a good example. His posts often directly impugn people based on their ethnicity, heritage, lineage, or genetic make up. I suspect he would even agree and admit to that.

Here's an example of that:

And you people NEVER take the obvious racists here to task


Why?

Because it works in your partys favour

 

[evince]

How many African Americans are there in America? Not very many. There's some in Minnesota. That's probably where the most of all in America are.

I happen to know some....they like it here.

Saying African American is racist if they aren't. That BS started with Obama, a man with zero black American heritage. He's an African American.

Black Americans are Americans and have been since before the country began.

Did you know the Revolution started over a black American getting shot?

Well..he was was 1/2 African, but that was a long time ago.

You are an obvious racist

 

[Matt Dillon]

You are an obvious racist

The African-Americans I know speak Dutch and are white, racist.

 

[evince]

If you want to prove you are not racists stop ignoring the obvious racists on your side


Start ripping their ho hoes out of their pants and calling the police on their shop lifting

 

[evince]

The African-Americans I know speak Dutch and are white, racist.

Everyone here knows you are a pathetic racist no matter how many times you scream “who put those ho goes down my pants”

 

[evince]

Your post here always defends racists


You just claiming you are not racist amounts to the shoplifter being caught with stolen ho hoes down their pants saying


“ how did those get there I didn’t steal them”

Just don’t steal those ho hoes

 

[evince]

Just don’t display the racist flags and spew hate on your fellow Americans

 

[NiftyNiblick]

Certain minorities may not agree,

but I think that there's a big difference between racists who don't believe in equal opportunity and equal status under the law

and people like myself who can't identify with Afro-centric things like Hip Hop, the NBA, made up Ebonic kids' names that sound sorta African, and Juneteenth.

As I said, there are several contributors to this forum who might strongly disagree with that,
and they don't seem to recognize who is their real enemy and who isn't and doesn't want to be.

 

[Matt Dillon]

evince while starting this thread:

 

[T. A. Gardner]

“Likewise, evince's claim that if you don't physically act against racism makes you racist.”
If you see a murder and dont call the police you just aided the murderers

Imprecise. If my calling the police at that time would get the attention of the murderer and I too got killed should I act? Clearly, that doesn't make me the equivalent of racist to not act, even if I later call the police when it's safe to do so.

When you see racism and just walk past as if there is no racism

Same thing. Just because I witness a racist act doesn't mean I should immediately take action if that action is going to cause more harm than good.

You can be morally charged as a racist

You are now arguing that I should be willing to become a martyr and anything less makes me a heretic. It's the sort of thinking ISIS used with Islam. It's a variant of religious bigotry at it's worst.

Your single definition designed to clear you of your racism doesn’t matter

Yes, my definition matters. You are making the argument of Humpty Dumpty...

When words become meaningless, or are twisted to mean anything, they no longer have meaning. You are doing that with the word 'racist.'

SOCIETY and its consensus on your racism does matter

Now you're arguing that the mob should rule. Get your pitchforks and torches people!

 

[Matt Dillon]

Certain minorities may not agree,

but I think that there's a big difference between racists who don't believe in equal opportunity and equal status under the law

and people like myself who can't identify with Afro-centric things like Hip Hop, the NBA, made up Ebonic kids' names that sound sorta African, and Juneteenth.

As I said, there are several contributors to this forum who might strongly disagree with that,
and they don't seem to recognize who is their real enemy and who isn't and doesn't want to be.

 

[Yakuda]

And no cunt In The world wants your racist tiny pants worm inadequate boy

So you can't prove I'm a racist. So that means youre just a loud mouth whore. What a fucking surprise.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

And you people NEVER take the obvious racists here to task


Why?

Because it works in your partys favour

I just did and you scorn me for doing it?

 

[Matt Dillon]

I just did and you scorn me for doing it?

You can't break through the indoctrination. These people have been systematically taught to not think and only react.

It's bigger than just a crime.

A crime against humanity is what it is.

 

[Matt Dillon]

Just don’t display the racist flags and spew hate on your fellow Americans

This is a Klan flag.

 

[evince]

Certain minorities may not agree,

but I think that there's a big difference between racists who don't believe in equal opportunity and equal status under the law

and people like myself who can't identify with Afro-centric things like Hip Hop, the NBA, made up Ebonic kids' names that sound sorta African, and Juneteenth.

As I said, there are several contributors to this forum who might strongly disagree with that,
and they don't seem to recognize who is their real enemy and who isn't and doesn't want to be.

You don’t understand it because you don’t know anyone personally

You also don’t know much about certain cultural experiences all over the world


You have to know people and have things conveyed to you on a human level to understand the how’s and why’s to feel an understanding and connection to those social norms

Hip hop is one of my least favorite types of music


Why?

No instruments in its roots


Why?

Lack of ability to buy instruments and pay for things like new strings and bows and reeds

The beats are cool at times


The rapping replaces the singing voice


That just lets me down


But for me it’s more by like poetry set to beats


I crave strings, horns, drums

Music makes me alive



Voices singing


Bob Dillion was a horrible guitarist and had a horrible voice

I can’t listen to too much of it



I love other people singing his great poetry


He was never destined to have a great voice

Or play guitar well


But he had the poetry and beat



You don’t have to love everything about a culture


To respect those who do

 

[Matt Dillon]

Everyone here knows you are a pathetic racist no matter how many times you scream “who put those ho goes down my pants”

Wtf are ho goes?

Oh! Is it my old Florida State Flag you don't like?

Aww! Too bad!

 

[T. A. Gardner]

You can't break through the indoctrination. These people have been systematically taught to not think and only react.

It's bigger than just a crime.

A crime against humanity is what it is.

Evince is just a bigot with a bigot mindset. Everyone's a "racist" to him unless he, by divine powers granted him, decides you aren't a racist. It's the pinnacle of obliviousness to reality.