I have been called a racist on a different forum for stating (for example) that:
I do NOT feel sorry for black people today who have had every opportunity that I had in the public education system.
I do NOT owe them retribution for their ancestors (none of which they personally know) who were slaves.
I have no problem if someone want to advocate betterment of their people regardless of race, cultures, traditions, heritage etc…it’s their prerogative to do so. It doesn’t necessary mean they’re racist bigots either.
For me it’s refusal to go down the road that left is trying taken us…and it’s not just refusal going down there road but outright contempt for their agenda.
So maybe that makes me a political bigot…my own hatred I have towards them.
I think you’re all being a bunch of weenies. As my Grandmother used to say, “I don’t have a problem with black people. I think everyone should own a couple.”
Seriously though, better to be in their face and show their bigotry for what it is, rather than to censor it and just pretend it isn’t there. What does that accomplish? I mean outside of their little group, the idiocy is blatantly apparent. I think on the whole many have been doing a fine job of calling them out on their bullshit.
Same for me. I don’t buy it and I feel it is being forced down my throat. I don’t agree with it and I don’t like it one bit. Censorship is not what so many fought and died to protect. Freedom and Freedom of Speech is.
I agree with this, but I separate bigotry from racism. I believe there is no wisdom, prudence or benefit attached to racism. I believe that no race is superior to another in regard to human dignity and the value of lives…and I certainly find no benefit in exclaiming that any other race (or ethnicity) is inferior to mine.
The people are no less human than I. They just come from different cultures, with different histories and exposure to different environments throughout their histories.
Spear chunking tribes that still exist in rain forests have not been exposed to and still have no need of such things as crowded cities, telephones, highways, taxation to support big governments…blah, blah, blah. They live a simple life and likely have IQs that will never match those in developed nations, but they are still not inferior humans.
Bigotry, on the other hand is sometimes commendable. Had the Allies not been bigoted against the ideology of Hitler, there would not have been a victory.
Again, this is just an opinion. That’s what this thread is about…opinions.
Basically, IMHO racism is never sensible…bigotry can be, depending on the source of the intolerance.