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Are You Racist?

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Tangle
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09-29-2021 6:17 PM 		Reply to: Message 1 by Percy
09-29-2021 5:40 PM

We have to start with admitting we're all racists. It's natural, it's part of our wiring. Civilisation is a process of overcoming our wiring.
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A few years ago I did a masters degree in criminology as a hobby. I learned an awful lot of detail and it all fades with time. But I'll remember until I die one of the professors saying totally casually, as a throw away point, that "crime is normal". Meaning that we all commit crime and regularly too. When did you last break the speed limit? As a kid did you nick something from the store? Have you found something and not handed it in to the police? Taken an illegal drug? And that just the nice people.
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Racism is normal.
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The big question is how do we overcome what is normal?
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07-09-2022 3:20 PM 		Reply to: Message 31 by Phat
07-09-2022 3:07 PM

Re: What sort of Ist are you?
What are you hoping for here Phat?
Je suis Charlie. Je suis Ahmed. Je suis Juif. Je suis Parisien. I am Mancunian. I am Brum. I am London. Olen Suomi Soy Barcelona. I am Ukraine.

"Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed.
Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved."
- Tim Minchin, in his beat poem, Storm.

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07-09-2022 4:17 PM 		Reply to: Message 33 by Phat
07-09-2022 3:45 PM

Re: What sort of Ist are you?
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My point is that Dredge is more of an anti-liberal than he is ageist or racist.
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Dredge is an act, we have no idea what he actually thinks. As for liberal, Americans really need to use a different word for whatever you mistakenly think the word means.
Je suis Charlie. Je suis Ahmed. Je suis Juif. Je suis Parisien. I am Mancunian. I am Brum. I am London. Olen Suomi Soy Barcelona. I am Ukraine.

"Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed.
Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved."
- Tim Minchin, in his beat poem, Storm.

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