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    Default Define "racist"

    "He doesn't like rap music, talks like a frat boy and dances like a raver. I guess he hates being black."

    I saw this somewhere and it illustrated an excellent point. For some odd reason, any person of color who does not behave according to a stereotyped definition, is "not really" (insert race here) or must secretly have identity issues. Why? One would hope that freedom from racist remarks and attitudes would include the right to behave as one feels most natural and not have correct (...) behaviour dictated to you.

    So what do you think? Is one free to be black in this country only if they talk in ghetto slang, listen to "black" music and wear "black" clothing?
    He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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    One would hope that freedom from racist remarks and attitudes would include the right to behave as one feels most natural and not have correct (...) behaviour
    Totally agree.
    What music a person listens to or what they wear has nothing to do with what race they are- those are all personal taste choices that anyone and everyone is free to make.

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    Default Re: Define "racist"

    Quote Originally Posted by Lilith
    One would hope that freedom from racist remarks and attitudes would include the right to behave as one feels most natural and not have correct (...) behaviour dictated to you.
    Very true. Of course, this does not mean just racism...but every -ism out there. Just because someone does not agree with someone's homosexuality does not give that person the right to dictate what they can or cannot do/have/be. Just because someone does not agree with anything out there does not give that person the right to tell people how to live. It is not just a freedom, it is a given right. It's a respect that very few people have learned how to give throughout their lives.

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    I agree, and along a broader spectrum than that. You can be conservative and still agree with a liberal approach to some issues; be white and not be opposed to affirmative action; be liberal and agree with a conservative approach to some issues; be black and still be a conservative; and so on and so forth.

    It's a big world with a pretty fair amount of room for well-meaning people of different views.

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    The source of a great deal of this kind of attitude is Identity Politics.
    Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.

    William F. Buckley, Jr.

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