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Racist, or just careful?

Stoked said:
You get to make assumptions about my personality, emotions and view points with out kowing me so I can do the same.
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Absolutely, and I fully expect you'll call me out when I'm wrong.

Stoked said:
You delight in being able to call people racists.
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Nothing about racism is delightful to me, least of all that it's endemic to humans.

Stoked said:
Her skin tone does not matter to me because to me it has no bearing on what kind of person she is or can be. But feel free to make some more wildly incorrect assumptions about me.
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In the USA, only a white person has the privilege to think skin tone doesn't matter in society.
 
Stoked said:
If, as more and more of our current society is prone to do, she is only doing this to get attention for herself?
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She has worked as a doctor in Afghanistan. Why would anyone want the kind of attention this will draw? For every positive comment, she'll see five that say she is lying/exaggerating/etc. She already had a blog on HuffPo, and nothing to gain from this column but trouble.
 
Bronco70 said:
So... if humans treating each other bad is inevitable, why should I get upset at all? There's nothing I can do about it, right?

You can't have it both ways.
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We learn to react based on the culture we are brought up in. 130 years ago, minstrel shows were popular and funny; now they are offensive. Human nature didn't change, but our culture did. I think we can change our culture even more, but there's going to be a lot more to it than just being nicer. It will involve changing our learned cognitive shortcuts.

However, I'm also a cynic. Some days, I think we can change, some days I think we can't or won't. I'll try to be more consistent in my posting on that, but no promises. :)
 
Nate505 said:
I agree with this to an extent. The thing about race is that it's the most easily identifiable characteristic a person has, so people tend to associate actions by the characteristic they can identify easily and categorize them based on that. It's unfair for sure, but I honestly don't know how it can be changed unless the population goes blind. Then people would start discriminating against people on the sound of their voice or something else. I'm no anthropologist, but I honestly wonder if it's a survival instinct that's been encoded into us. The more you trusted people who weren't in your tribe, the greater likelihood you were to be killed by them until one tribe assimilated the other.
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I agree that we'll never change in that we will see skin color as one of the first things we notice about a person. However, I hope we can change our cognitive shortcuts regarding what skin color is connected to.
 
One Brow said:
Absolutely, and I fully expect you'll call me out when I'm wrong.



Nothing about racism is delightful to me, least of all that it's endemic to humans.



In the USA, only a white person has the privilege to think skin tone doesn't matter in society.
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OK, you are wrong. About pretty much your entire view on racism.
 
Stoked said:
OK, you are wrong. About pretty much your entire view on racism.
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I'm well aware that's your opinion, from someone with no study and minimal personal experience with the subject. I don't expect those lacks to hold you back.
 
One Brow said:
I'm well aware that's your opinion, from someone with no study and minimal personal experience with the subject. I don't expect those lacks to hold you back.
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It certainly is not holding you back from poor judgements.
 
One Brow said:
Funny, you bolded "minimal personal experience with the subject" as something that should apparently hold me back. Why is that?
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Because apparently it is something that holds me back so why would you be any different?
 
Furthermore your opinion is no more valid than mine, Candrews, GFs, franklins, Bigb, Jimmyeat Jazz...
 
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