Tryptamine stated: source post
Inquirer:
"Grouping people by their culture is much more informative than grouping by race."
It's an old topic and I didn't read all the replies here, but I'm with everyone who agrees that it makes more sense to group people by culture than by race. You have to be at least a bit dumb to not see that culture is the common factor used by racists to be racists, and that people came to stereotype races because races tend to share a culture, and color/physical aspect is more obvious to people than the more subtle common traits shared by individuals (education, culture, money). This mistake was excusable in the past to a degree, but fuck, when you get so many counter-examples of people from a certain race acting differently because of being exposed to different cultures, you have no excuse now. You are just a fucking idiot.
moonshine stated: source post
I lack the time & patience to properly dissect your post right now, but one q you may want to ponder upon:
- whoever planted the idea that 'racism' is an inherently 'negative' idea into your head?
You people are pathetically gullible.
Anything that's not real but is radically believed to be so is bad. An obvious hint is that whites racists think they are better than blacks, blacks racists think they are better than whites, so they can't all be right, can they? Just like not all religions can be right. Racism is based on wrong ideas that reflect a partial, distorted reality. How is that not dangerous and prone to lead to abuses, and lose-lose situations on both ends?
MissCommunication stated: source post
moonshine stated: source post
I do not think "rational" warrants qualifiers on either side. It is what it is. Not what you •feel• it should be.
So are you saying racism is rational as opposed to be being based on feelings?
Ofc Wooster thinks racism is rational, people always rationalize shit like this because it's a good way to blind themselves to the fact that it comes from fear, and hatred of different. Right wing extremism comes from fear, the same way narcissism stems from deep seated insecurities.
It's frustrating when people are so fucking confused about themselves they don't see what comes from their feelings, and what comes from reason. Like Luna and a bunch of other logic-robot wannabees here saying they are all logic, but having obvious issues with their emotions.