just don't be racist if you don't want to be called a racist. how is this so hard for you racists?
"Guys, guys, guys... I'm not racist, okay? I'm just deeply prejudiced and discriminatory, okay? It is super different and obviously not as bad, okay?"
The vast majority of he world uses racist to mean those who engage in prejudicial or discriminatory behavior based on race or ethnicity. Finding a definition that doesn't include that doesn't change that. And you can shout until you're blue in the face that you're not racist when you behave this way, and we're going to keep pointing out that you're wrong, and you're a racist piece of shit.
You're not going to convince the world that your behavior is fine because you didn't explicitly state that other races are inferior to you. Prejudice and discrimination based on race implicitly make that clear, because you're treating some races worse than others, which means you don't find them to be of equal value.
If it hurts your feelings, good. It's supposed to. It's our way of telling you you're a regressive fuckpig and you need to get your shit straightened out.
So the term racist is now apparently so broad that it includes anyone who doesn't agree that it should be used so liberally regardless of their actual opinions, statements or actions on race and racial issues?
It's ironic how a lot of you seem to have identified me as part of some group and pre-judge me based on that. I've never said anything even remotely racist in this or any other thread, hold no racists opinions, don't support any racist legislation and haven't voted for any racist politicians and actually vehemently oppose them as often as I can. Yet apparently I'm a racist because I don't agree with the overuse and over labeling of other people as racist without sufficient evidence.
This us vs them mentality leaves very little room for nuance and/or middle ground. When you call someone who said something prejudice you're more likely to make them combative and cause them to further entrench themselves into their position than you are to make them see how what they did was prejudicial and help them better themselves (and by extension the world). But it almost seems like you aren't interested in actually making the situation better, you'd rather maximise your moral superiority while giving yourself license to behave abhorrently towards them. When you label someone racists you dehumanize them and legitimise violence and personal attacks against them as okey (Antifa). Ironically this is exactly what racists do. If you think you aren't guilty of that. Go back in the history of this thread or any other thread I've taken part in and see if you can find an example of me using personal attacks or insults against anyone I've debated (spoiler alert: you can't). Then look at the last post I've quoted above or any of the countless other posts by various users on this forum in various threads where someone has disagreed with a political opinion and be called racists and a piece of shit in response.
I'm not denying that there are people with prejudicial, discriminatory or even in somewhat rarer cases racist views on this site, I think there certainly are. But at no point have I expressed agreement or sympathy towards these views. All I've done is question whether we should really be comparing someone who crosses the street when black people walk by with someone who seeks to violently persecute or exterminate them. But hey, I guess that makes me a racist.
