OK, This is my observation:
Liberals, when they find supposed racism, due to how unpopular old fashioned white racism is, they are then greatly empowered to them marginalize just anyone or anything thing, without actually addressing any valid points, that might have been made.
My question here, is, can liberals be trusted to be judges of whether something is or is not racist, when they have such a strong motive to decide that something indeed, is supposedly "racist".
My hypothesis, is that NO, they cannot. THe temptation is too great and that they thus abuse that power a great deal.
As a corollary, it occurs to me, in any valid accusation of racism, there has to be an additional, actual real harm being done. Otherwise, the racism has no impact to the discussion or the issues being discussed.
Thus, as a form of a TEST, the challenge is, can any think of an example of "racism" where there was no harm done, other than the ill will in the person's heart.
Thus, in EVERY example of REAL racism, there is an ACTUAL harm being done, that can be discussed without any reference to RACISM, which is mostly likely to derail the discussion, and that discussion of the actual harm, can continue and the real issue(s) can be discussed productively.
i will start with the first example of an accusation of racism.
One of my favorites, the claim that President Trump said that neo-nazis were "Very fine people", thus being racist.
This did not happen, thus there was no harm, thus no actual racism. Nearly all liberals continue to believe it, even though it has been proven completely false.
If we can have an ACTUAL or at least PLAUSIBLE accusation of racism for the second example, that might work better for the test.
Can anyone think of any PLAUSIBLE accusation that is really BIG?
To be clear, example of white racism, by NOT left leaning people, accused by left leaning people.
Liberals, when they find supposed racism, due to how unpopular old fashioned white racism is, they are then greatly empowered to them marginalize just anyone or anything thing, without actually addressing any valid points, that might have been made.
My question here, is, can liberals be trusted to be judges of whether something is or is not racist, when they have such a strong motive to decide that something indeed, is supposedly "racist".
My hypothesis, is that NO, they cannot. THe temptation is too great and that they thus abuse that power a great deal.
As a corollary, it occurs to me, in any valid accusation of racism, there has to be an additional, actual real harm being done. Otherwise, the racism has no impact to the discussion or the issues being discussed.
Thus, as a form of a TEST, the challenge is, can any think of an example of "racism" where there was no harm done, other than the ill will in the person's heart.
Thus, in EVERY example of REAL racism, there is an ACTUAL harm being done, that can be discussed without any reference to RACISM, which is mostly likely to derail the discussion, and that discussion of the actual harm, can continue and the real issue(s) can be discussed productively.
i will start with the first example of an accusation of racism.
One of my favorites, the claim that President Trump said that neo-nazis were "Very fine people", thus being racist.
This did not happen, thus there was no harm, thus no actual racism. Nearly all liberals continue to believe it, even though it has been proven completely false.
If we can have an ACTUAL or at least PLAUSIBLE accusation of racism for the second example, that might work better for the test.
Can anyone think of any PLAUSIBLE accusation that is really BIG?
To be clear, example of white racism, by NOT left leaning people, accused by left leaning people.
