Well said, as usual, Judah. On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]>wrote:
> > 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:341692 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
