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ConfettiEggnog wrote

Reply to comment by sudo in Do you support free speech? by chaos

I doubt I have met more than three people who were aware they were racist and were still racist.

More so, all people raised in the Western/White/Christian world is mildly racist. The kind that will revolt at discrimination, but still keep check the pocket for the iphone after passing a group of foreigners.

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sudo wrote

I didn't mean the racist person, I mean among leftists.

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ConfettiEggnog wrote

Since most people are mildly racist, I assume there are a lot of leftists among them, if not all.

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sudo wrote

It is true that most people (in the US, at least) are mildly racist, if not more so. But, that doesn't mean that every person is mildly racist. What is true for a group of people is not necessarily true for every individual person. Assuming it is is committing the fallacy of division. For example, if someone said, "Most astronauts are men. Valentina is an astronaut, so Valentina is a man," they would be committing the fallacy of division.

Besides, one thing leftists are known for is their rejection of prejudice, and self-criticism. There are a few racist leftists, but most are not (remember, liberals are not leftists).

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ConfettiEggnog wrote

In the 19th century, being a racist was a virtuous way of thinking. So a white man might have erotic fantasies with black men or women, but that was not his discourse. That was something to be discreet about.

In the 21st century, being a racist is unacceptable in most circles. So everything is cool. Whites even invented the term "color blind" to show off their coolness. They still have a very unnatural act in the presence of people of different skin colors, but nothing racist will part their lips - at least this is how they imagine things. Wait till "your daughter marries one of them".

You need the narrative of "a few". All this trendy racists are in their minds one of the few. This way you, and your dear ones, your mentors, are all exempt.

Also you are building a straw man. I write ALL in the sense that the two saints that aren't have two simultaneous qualities: 1. they are irrelevant compared with a few hundred millions only in the States and 2. they are not you.

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