just a guy being a dude wrote:
and another coach wrote:
You're a moron. Sick of you idiots taking your cues from the likes of Foxnews and Newsmax. I'd rather you just come out and say you don't like people who aren't like you, rather than hide behind these kinds of narratives.
I know you would like to hear that, because you know I am right. If I say I'm a racist then that means you can just disregard everything I say - sorry not going to happen, either try and debate or continue looking like a crybaby. Calling someone you disagree with as racist when you can't mount an argument because you follow an idiotic ideology is straight out of the liberal playbook.
I am not a racist, sorry I know that hurts your feelings.
A standard definition of racist starts with “one who demonstrates or feels racial prejudice against people of other races.”
By that standard we are all racists, which causes the term to lose some meaning.
Some people(It looks like you belong to this group) want to define racist as requiring you to wake up and compile a list with the heading “how to commit hate crimes against black people.” That definition excludes most of the Harm caused by racial prejudice.
I see a few layers of racial prejudice.
1) People who consciously plan to harm people of other races because they are of other races. This is a small group
2) people who say they have no racial bias. This covers a pretty wide range of people. It includes people like someone who posted on this board that anyone who doesn’t recognize that blacks are lazy and stupid is racist(a paraphrase) as well as people who are quite moderate
3) people who believes that they do have racial bias. The question is how much people care about it and how natural i”they see it as being. Some view it as a gigantic character flaw, others would view it more along the lines of gluttony: bad, but normal, and something we should expect to manage for the entirety of our lives.
If you find yourself saying “I am not racist” you should probably reflect on how you check your biases.