I love people who think that standards mean having no standards. Yes, calling people out for racist behavior is just the same sort of thing as the racist behavior itself, it's all a judgement. I, personally, find that behavior repugnant.
And I know that you'll immediately say "calling out racist behavior is not the same thing as calling someone a racist". I am quite familiar with identity politics and the desire to focus on process rather than making categorical statements about someone's "inner being". Hate the game, not the player, right? There has to be limitations on relativistic social attitudes, otherwise morals, social mores, implied social contracts...they mean nothing. We're talking about a man who has a long, long history of incredibly hateful and ugly speech and at some point you need to stop pretending that each action takes place in isolation and that each must be condemned separately and instead stand up and say "This *man* is not ok". You may call that prejudicial, I call it standing up against hate. Or, as Rush would put it, calling a Spade a Spade. Judah On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Chris Stoner <[email protected]> wrote: > > No, it simply makes one a person who told a racist joke. Applying absolute > generalizations to people for telling a racist joke or applying > generalizations for a person's skin color are both at their core > prejudicial. The former is just a prejudice that people are OK with. > > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Eric Roberts < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Wouldn't telling a racist joke still make one a racist? ibe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:341691 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
