ItsAChiaotzu said:
bushwhacker2k said:
ItsAChiaotzu said:
bushwhacker2k said:
I AM
-Male
-Age 20
-Straight
-Grew up in middle/upper-class playing tons of video-games
-Above-average intelligence and not particularly motivated
-Everyone is racist to some degree, the mere thought that people have different races makes you racist
-Agnostic, and not particularly interested in whatever religion is being pandered to me
Sounds about right.
Actually, no, the mere thought that people have races isn't racist whatsoever.
Thank you for your offended flip-response, yes it does.
The thought that other people are different in that they have different races means you treat (if you think of it differently, you treat it differently) them differently. I'm going to the root of the word and I'm not really arguing, it's just what it means at a very basic level.
No, no, no. Acknowledging the differences between two things is not treating them differently. I do not think of the
people as different, but their skin colour is. Implying that the very idea of race makes everyone a racist is frankly stupid.
I think perhaps you're thinking of the term racist as an insult rather than that it's deeper meaning which is thinking of people in such a way to be different from oneself, I'm not calling everyone a big fat racist, I'm just using the term in a way people don't generally use it.
Also, when I said treat, I explained in parentheses last post that it can mean to think of them differently, I'm definitely NOT saying everyone acts differently towards people of different races.
I know this won't help, but can you not post a reply about how I'm stupid or I'm wrong and just accept that I obviously use the word differently than you?