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I was hoping a Left Wing Liberal could help me out here. I know there are a lot of you on this site, so it should be easy to get some help with this question. I am neither right nor left, but I do have a question that I hope you can answer without calling me racist or just stupid. If you respond with something like that, I will just assume you don’t know either and wait for the next response. So here goes.
Can someone please explain to me why it would be racist if a white person was to start a group and focus on their white heritage, yet its fine for black people to start a black group and focus on their heritage? It would be racist if there was a United Caucasian College Fund, yet it’s fine to have the United ** College Fund. It would be racist if there were a White Entertainment Television channel, yet its fine to have BET. Why is it racist to have a national organization for whites, yet it’s just fine for the NAACP to exist? I regularly hear that it is because of slavery, yet no one alive today has ever owned blacks, nor are there any blacks alive today who were slaves. I also hear people say that racism is only when someone shows prejudices towards blacks, and that no other race qualifies. So how is it fine for one side to cry racist all while showing racism themselves? I understand that there is racism on both sides; I just can’t understand why society and the Left are so acceptable of it towards whites? (see examples above)
For the record, I think that racism is wrong no matter who does it or against whom.
Not all people categorize so they can show prejudiced, people do it because that is the way everything is structured. Humans naturally group things together, they always have. The problem is not with those who group, it's with those who are offended because they are not happy with themself. If you are not happy being who you are, than you look for things that offend you so you can direct your anger on to others.
Exactly. Spot on!
Spot on according to your individual perspective. But there's bound to be some individuals, that don't agree.
I respect your opinion, but I disagree with it.
One love and peace :)
You are wrong, it is the people who are not happy with themselves that are the problem. Just like the guy who held the door for a lady, only to be bitched out by her because she was a feminist who decided to let him know she didn't need a man to do anything for her. She has a problem with herself, and therefore she is a ** to every man around her. If another woman had held the door for her she probably would have just thanked her and moved on. She is racist toward men and thus everyone had a crappy encounter.
SEXIST toward men. If you're going to make a point, make it accurately.