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(, Thu 26 Aug 2010, 12:47)
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While I concur
with you about your right to call racists "fucking idiots", at no time have I suggested that that anyone be stereotyped soley because of race, but that once that particular person has done whatever they did to cause you grief, I would think it fairly normal to identify that problem in the simplest of ways, much like you would identify a car or a dog, eg: what colour or model/breed was it?
If you should have a case where the majority or all of one particular race of people have caused you nothing but trouble, I would say that you would be foolish,if you didn't have some kind of issue.
A large portion of humans have an irrational fear of snakes, when never having even met one, and despite knowing that many breeds are not venomous, yet I see no-one getting upset about that.
I may well not be articulate enough to get my point across clearly, but in short I don't condone hate of a race or species overall, but that the race or species is often a visual identifier, of something or someone.
(, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 7:42, 2 replies)
"that anyone be stereotyped soley because of race"
Derogatory words which are used to incite racial hatred have nothing to do with stereotyping. If you were bitten by a snake would you really recoil back and cry out the specific type of breed of snake? "Ah! you fucking cobra!"... probably not. So you'd argue that you'd be unlikely to shout "Ah! You Somali fuck!" should someone of of Somali descent smack you in the head. Would you use a stereotype to insult him, calling him "a fucking pirate"? No? But you need to differentiate them from your own "breed and species" right? Or are they simply a cunt to you (probably having overheard you trying to rationalise being an ignorant racist turd).
(, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 11:51, closed)
So,
you may well be wary of similar people in similar circumstances, maybe even with merit, but unless every black man is a shit landlord or Pakistani is a crap boss, you can't some close to justifying racism with that argument. Should she insult a black doctor due to his colour? How about an Asian accountant?

Oh, of course. Its OK as long as its your opinion.
(, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 19:49, closed)

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