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Does a racist have to be actively burning a minority at a pyre for you to call them such?

Or will you just apologize, redirect or use the "no true scotsman" bias? Because I'm sick of seeing people on this forum carefully dissect and cut around the racist until they're this mythical creature that has been sighted less than the unicorn. Meanwhile white supremecists, white nationalists, and white alt-right users of 4chan are lumping together all people with skin color darker than a tanned celebrity as "dindus", a dehumanizing term started as a joke. Well, it wasn't a joke when Adam Scarsella showed up armed to a black lives matter protest to start trouble and started firing into the crowd when he found it. And let's talk about the name of the group (Blm). Is it really a controversial statement? Do you disagree? Or do you believe that the fact that you have to push 1 for english when calling customer service is equivalent to having a loved one shot and killed by the police while unarmed, and so think that all lives matter? Maybe you should be upset that the police are taking mushrooms and see shadow demons everytime they encounter a black person. Let's take the kill count of say...The Black Panthers, and put it up against, oh, idk, LITERAL FVCKING N@ZIS who wiped out 11 million thinking, feeling people who could have put us much farther along technologically if 90% of germany hadn't been thinking exactly like you, alt-right apologist. -"It was a peaceful protest, those torches were only lit because we were going to burn books, which is a lot better than burning witches, we're so progressive." -"I'm sure the screaming chimney is because those special snowflakes can't stand a hot meal, paid for with our hard-earned reichsmarks." The autobahn is paved with the atrocities of people convinced they were the heroes, standing up for poor little oppressed (group currently in power), and it goes over a bridge that stands over a chasm full of the corpses of people who saw it too late for what it was. And speaking of special snowflakes, how egotistic do you have to be to believe that hate-speech should be covered by free speech? Should r@pe be covered by the right to peaceably assemble? Should the right to a fair and speedy torture session be in the bill of rights? Are you triggered by the inclusion of other races in your saturday morning cartoons? I'd like to see [i]your[/i] psyche after being followed everywhere you go, having racial epithets hurled at you and having your every move screened for hostility and aggression by a more hostile and aggressive class of people. By the way, I don't hate any of you. If you're reading this and starting a personal grudge against me, I know you didn't have a choice when you started looking up to your racist uncle, or hearing the passion in the voice of your local unhinged talk-radio host. It's a compelling fantasy to be the underdog, struggling against all odds to accomplish what others told you is impossible. It accounts for the sales of stealth titles, it was the backbone trope of Rogue One, and feeling demonized is awful, but consider this; who writes the laws, who pays the people who write the laws, and then look at who's not allowed into the discussion? Are you really an oppressed minority, or are you just so disgusting a reminder of a past lubricated with bloodshed that no-one wants to join your cause? Stop being willfully ignorant, stop getting all your news from one place, and stop standing up for people who vapidly look at a person's skin color first. They can defend themselves, what's more, they've begun attacking, or one might say, annexing the Sudetenland. It 'feels' good to call others weak because it deflects from your own shortcomings, you put the other side into defense mode, and now they have to talk about themselves, then you can hit on their egocentricity and before long, you tuck your chin into your collarbone and get that smarmy "i won" feeling. It's one of the oldest tricks in the book, and people need to stop falling for it. No, BLM, antifa, SJWs, or LGBT+ are not worse than actual white supremacists. If you're so convinced anti-white racism is a fundamental problem bigger than all others in our culture. (Bigger than our anemic education system or our mass-incarceration) make it a point to spit on those who make whites look like bigoted, backwards, illiterate hill-folk terrified of anything that isn't their own reflection. Tl;dr, Racism is bad, I shouldn't have to say that. If you think that's a controversial statement, you're a symptom of a broken system, and while I don't personally hold you responsible for holding your views until now, you need to grow out from under your family/radio-show-host/youth minister's shadow and I do hold you personally responsible for not learning a mantra that isn't vapid, built on fear and doesn't result in some of the most disgusting thoughts a sentient being can have. It isn't funny, you aren't oppressed, you are actively going out to cause trouble, and you will be stopped at every turn by actual heroes, not the kind you read about in volksfront or whatever. Edit: Not seeing as much vitriol as I expected from what's sometimes referred to as an arm of 4chan at this point. (I don't get the problem with that, it seems like division bias, actually. Some good things have come out of 4chan, but I digress.) Maybe they're actually cowards still afraid to show their true colors, maybe they're not great at defending their position, or maybe I've got a guardian ninja watching over me. Either way, I'm still hopeful that humanity can throw away these regressionist leanings and stop pigeonholing people using vapid qualifiers such as how much melanin is in your skin. (Next they'll start preferring people by how much beryllium it takes to kill them, or how much sulfur they can drink.)
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  • You're preaching to people who are like 13 and just regurgitating what their parents think. Look, I agree with what you're saying. I'm pretty sure about any sane person would, but you're not gonna get it through these idiots heads. Any different ideology to them is taken as a direct attack to the person they love, that they associate that ideology with.

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    • So is this what you think conservatives are? We aren't racist, I think people should be treated the same regardless the color of their skin. I think white supremacy, black supremacy, whatever racism there is is the most retarded thing ever.

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      • Prejudice is defined as having an opinion that is based on traits such as race, gender, or religion. Racism is defined as acting on prejudice opinions. Action is required.

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      • [quote][i][b]Does a racist have to be actively burning a minority at a pyre for you to call them such?[/i][/b][/quote] No.

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      • I have to disagree that we would have advanced more if the Nazí regime didn't happen. The Nazìs had some of the greatest scientists ever known. Their technology and what they were working on still baffles us today.

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        • Walmart has a sale for tissues right now.

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        • Jesus Christ that was far too long, didn't read past the first line... =p In any case, no, a person doesn't have to actively do racists things to be racist. It can just be an offhanded comment once in a while. People don't even have to know if you're racist to be racist. Cuz as a very lovely show sings about - "everyone's a little bit racist sometiiiimes"

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        • You don't have to be racist in order to be racist.

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          • minority= MYTH

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          • [quote]Tl;dr, Racism is bad[/quote] What a brave and principled stance you hold.

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          • The first slaves were brought to the colonial North America in 1619. America was born in 1776. That's 157 years of slavery. The Emancipation Proclamation was issued in 1863, it effectively abolished slavery in the U.S. That's an additional 87 years of slavery, bringing the total to 244 years. Jim Crow laws forced blacks into racial segregation in the southern United States until 1965. That's an additional 98 years. That brings the total to 342 years of enslavement, -blam!-, murder, police brutality, harassment, segregation, hangings, burning crosses and injustice. Abraham Lincoln - [b]assassinated[/b] Medgar Evers - [b]assasinated[/b] Malcolm X - [b]assasinated[/b] Dr. Martin Luther King - [b]assasinated [/b] The crack epidemic in the 80's. Draconian drugs laws that overwhelmingly target people of color. Police brutality and more injustice. If BLM is a response to 100's of years of oppression, what is the mobilization of white nationalism a response to exactly? If you can't see how ridiculous of a comparison it all is, it's because you're a racist, period.

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            • Edited by Cpt DogBlack: 8/16/2017 12:16:53 PM
              Im not racist, I just despise all liberals and democrats. Edit: removed the word hate.

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            • So, what's your point? Are you trying to convince us that racism exists? DUHHH!!! Frankly, I think people are just sick of hearing about it. People on the Left tend to drop that term way too easily and way too often. People have become numb to it. Because it is so over used, it has lost its shock value. Congratulations. I hate to say this, but 150 Neo-[url=http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law]-godwinslaw!-[/url] a-holes does not represent the majority in a 300+ million population. Liberals like to call Conservatives "science deniers", but it's obvious that the Left are math deniers. .

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              • The probelm is "racism" is veiwed differently. Some just see it as feeling that supremacy wave. Saying all blacks are ______ cant be racist because its "true".

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                • You're goddamn right. Unfortunately, reasonable discourse doesn't seem to be something many on here are capable of conducting. That's why Bungie invented the mute button.

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                  • Didn't you get the memo? The only thing that is "racist" on the Right is COMPLAINING about racism. The even the actions in your hyperbolic thread title might not be enough to garner criticism from some.

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                    • All lives matter.

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                      • People only act cancer here cuz they tryna fit in. /b/ is actually -blam!-ed.

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                        • Both radical sides are bad but if they want to look like a bunch of asshats and protest peacefully then that's their right.

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                          • My only frustration with racism and people getting called racist is when the word gets misused. If I dislike BLM, it may be because their political tactics are against my views. That doesn't mean I'm racist, it means I disagree with BLM's methods of spreading their message.

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                            • I don't dislike BLM because I think that a certain racial group's lives are less than anyone else's. No, I believe in judging individuals based on [b][u]their[/u][/b] actions, behaviours, and choices. I dislike members of BLM in my city because they are an unproductive, disruptive, hypocritical and idiotic group of privileged shits. They care more for attention and notoriety than actually helping people in need. Does BLM have a point in Chicago? I'm not sure, I don't live there, but the stats look pretty bad. Does BLM have a point in Toronto? [b][u]ABSOLUTELY NOT[/u][/b]. And if I were a member of BLM, and was concerned with the legitimacy of my group's message. Disavowing false claims would be a much bigger priority.

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                              • Read up to the part where OP is basically saying only people of European decent are racist. Leaving smh.

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                                • There are worse things than racism, like violence. Do SJWs need to actually kill a man before the recognize violence motivated by words is no different than violence motivated by ideas?

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                                  • No. A racist has to be actively engaged in a harmful behavior before I take action to oppose his/her racism. If a KKKer is dancing around a burning cross in a white nightgown, I'm going to roll my eyes and think about how pathetic he is... but I will respect his right as an American to wear that nightgown and desecrate that cross. If that same KKKer is actively attempting to lynch a minority person, he's going to wind up staring down the barrel of the most powerful weapon within my reach. Michael Douglas's Speech in "The American President", while I don't agree with all of it, gives a wonderful treatise on the subject: respecting someone's right to advocate at the top of his lungs what you'll spend your life opposing at the top of yours. It's not an easy thing.

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                                    • Edited by blade329: 8/15/2017 9:08:20 PM
                                      [quote]...how egotistic do you have to be to believe that hate-speech should be covered by the free speech?[/quote] Okay, define "hate speech". The problem with this is people have different ideas as to what constitutes hate speech. Sure, it's easy with the Neo-[url=http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law]-godwinslaw!-[/url] boobs. Not so much when you get into grayer areas. There are a lot of people on the Left with very low thresholds of what they consider hate speech.

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                                      • Sounds like a obnoxious rant, not interested in convoluted statement.

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