ApostateAbe
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- Joined
- Sep 19, 2002
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- Location
- Colorado, USA
- Basic Beliefs
- Infotheist. I believe the gods to be mere information.
My perspective is that, sometimes, reality is racist. The definition of "racism" is flexible, and you can say, "If it is correct, then it is not racist," but that would be confounding the definition of racism for the sake of accepting a dogma, and I don't like dogmas. Let's be rid of the dogma. It is both racist and correct. Let's not care so much for whether a thought is racist. Let's care whether or not it is correct.This claim was met by a series of accusations of racism. I actually agree. It is racist. The lesson is: sometimes racism is correct. More specifically, those who are part of an ideological movement will give misleading accounts and tell lies. That includes at least the black community of Ferguson, Missouri, with their false claims motivated by a racial identity. If a statement is racist, that does not mean it is unreasonable. A statement is unreasonable if it does not fit the evidence and the patterns of the world.
I disagree that it's racist. Pointing out a reality with racial issues doesn't make something racist.