There's levels in everything - or nuance if you like - and defining this is difficult for the best of people; less able people will miss it altogether as they're prone to seeing things in more clunky, black and white terms.AmareIsGod wrote: ↑Wed Feb 09, 2022 3:09 pmI agree with you. I think when people argue to justify a level of racism, that's a poor argument and only shows ignorance to the reality. It's either a racist notion or it isn't. There aren't levels to it that make one form right vs the other.Indy wrote: ↑Wed Feb 09, 2022 3:05 pmi don't think "once a racist always a racist" but you don't stop being a racist in your 30s/40s/+50s because you got caught being racist. You would have to go through a life-changing event. I agree that becoming a father for some is a life changing event that could cause all kind of major changes to your thinking/philosophy on life.
And what I posted wasn't a judgement of anyone in this thread or anywhere else. It is just a statement that the vast majority of people in the world would not describe themselves as racist. But almost EVERYONE is racist to some extent (it is a wide spectrum). So people say racism exists and it is bad, but then define racism as something further away from them on the spectrum so they can sit with the internal logic that *they* are not racist, but *those people* are.
On that point, it pays to be more sensitive to a topic and avoid planet of the ape - and yes, probably black body, white brain - type comments altogether.