Thoughts on "Racism"

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  1. Il Ðoge

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    I've been thinking lately that if white people can't help being racist, the same thing must apply to other people as well. E.g., blacks et al. also can't help being racist.

    I also wonder if people aren't against "racism" because they're scared of individuality. If we truly were against racism then we'd rate people as individuals and there'd be no categorical guarantee of personal acceptance. To be against "racism" lately really means to accept everyone, no questions asked, which is really about not inquiring into individual merits. After all, modern accusatory racism is different from the kind of racism wherein someone refuses to weigh another as an individual (weighing someone as an individual implicitly carries with it the possibility of rejection).

    It is very scary to think that you won't have categorical acceptance, and comforting to think that you will have it no matter what you do. Therein perhaps lies the incentive to obsess over "racism" in an environment where pretty much everyone understands we've long since become multi-racial and multi-cultural.
     

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