HuckFinn wrote:Wow! I want to tell you to GFY, but I like you.
You just described me as a, shrugging, irresponsible, inadequate racist!
It's like you could see me!
Ok, so, any beliefs I have have evolved in me in my 67 years and I could be wrong here, I mean who can really see themselves clearly, i didn't really choose.
I read. Observed. Tried to remain open-minded, researched. Like most people I guess?
But I even watch Fox!
Not out of vanity, but because I want what i can justifiably/verifiably call the truth. Not to parade it around but for reasons unknown to me.
Is it not true that we are all more comfortable around people that share our religion, skin color or ethnicity? To some extent?
Now is where you ponce. Pick away.
It's nature at work. That's why we are all on this continuum of comfortable-racist.
Watch much nature tv?
Yes. Most people harbor prejudices and biases against people of different ethnicities etc
TO ONE EXTENT OR ANOTHER...
Maybe you're above the fray. Or disingenuous? Even with yourself....
Or maybe, maybe, you're special!
Hold on, Michael Jordan is at the door!!
Know what? GFY....Hadda get that in...you understand...
GFY? Brother, believe me. If I could, I wood.
and please don't mix my words.
I never called you an inadequate racist.
To answer your question: Is a person "more comfortable" with like-minded people? Sure. Absolutely.
But to extrapolate that into "therefore everyone is racist" is a stretch that even you can see is moronic.
It is a weak mind that perceives "different" as being "inferior".
And if there is no perceived superiority in the like-minded group you belong to, then there is no true racism.
Huck, you wouldn't feel "comfortable" in one of my MENSA group outings. Doesn't mean you think you're superior. Doesn't make you prejudiced against me and my fellow genius brethren. It's just that you wouldn't understand us because we are so much more smarter than you.
No. I'm not in mensa. But you get the point.
Just because YOU obviously feel superior to people with different skin color than your own, doesn't mean everyone feels that way. But you shrug it away because in your mind everyone feels that way. Which is the exact opposite of taking responsibility.
It's like talking to a little kid.
Different doesn't mean worse. It's OK for people to be different. And if you feel "uncomfortable" around different people then you are simply human. But if you feel superior, then you are bigoted.
The only group of people that I know I'm better than are jets fans.