Tacet wrote:Interesting thing about this thread - in the few pages I scanned no one asked anyone else what colour, or ethnic group they are.
Oh, I forgot. Maybe it is because we are not racist, so we have absolutely no need for that information? I mean, I could care less if someone is black or has a pigment overload in the blue spectre, or is actually white like a spectre.. In all honesty, the fact that we are digital avatars here has eliminated the assumptions, presumptions, prejudices and other potential jawdropping realisations we might have when we see someone is actually black and making smartass comments. Not saying we would, but we do not need said information, especially given our current environment.
Or what did you prefer? That we ask everyone to state their ethnicity, so that we can be politically correct? Pah. Political correctness is for weakminded fools.
Tacet wrote:@Universe - Legendary's list of examples isn't far of the mark. Apartheid was racism, pure and simple. If you want to try and contradict that, be welcome to. I'd say that the slavery and Shoah ones can be refuted, though the Shoah one will be an very interesting debate. As for the rest, I'd really like to see your arguments on those.
I will not argue apartheid, as it is a rather sensitive subject in my family, and I do not wish to upset them. Apologies, I wish I would be able to.
I frown upon anyone who would talk about slavery as if it is something bad. Look here. If we never deported black people from Africa, the USA would never be as powerful and as important as it is today. Most likely, the African nations would have remained behind in the global developments (which would occur at a much slower pace because the educated population would be required to work the field instead of actually do something with that education). Need I remind you that the Imperialism-era slavery was initiated and kept going by those very black people that were being sold? There never was and never will be a unity of black people. Heck, they were more devious and vicious in their deportation manners as dear old Adolf purportedly was. At least he used trains, the black slavers had their slaves-for-sale walk every single mile of their journey! So tell me.. how inhumane is it to save a black person from the African madness? In all, slavery has educated the generic black person, raised their averages across the board.
And the Shoah? Jewish propaganda to maintain their global domination.
I kid, I kid. Fact of the matter is that even the Jewish 'holocaust' was not in essentia racist. It was an attempt to eliminate a social class. Effectively, it was a form of political genocide. Bad, but not racist. Social Darwinism is not racist, and from that theory, almost all anti-Jewish arguments stem. Sure, antisemitism is racism. Semites are not an actual people but are a group of people sharing some similarities, i.e. a race. Technically, they are only a linguistic unit, but race suffices as well.. thus, antisemitism is racist, by the grace of our expansion of the group targeted. Heh, kind of a stretch.
I forgot the other stuff.
Tacet wrote:@Semper - with the current Jim/Jo debate I suspect that words are taking on meanings in the triplicate.
