For the record, I wasn't indirectly calling you a racist, it was about people being apologists and overly in love with cultural relativism and process. And while I mostly think of myself as a bastard, asshole would certainly apply on occasion, so you'd be forgiven for thinking so.
That being said, let me ask you this: what criteria would you use to classify someone as a racist versus saying that they made a statement that could be interpreted as being racist? The reason I ask is that you weighed in on the side of saying that making a racist comment does not make you racist. You admit that you don't know the context of his remarks (historically) and I said in my original post that these remarks fit into a history of charged and offensive comments so you seem to have a vested interest in calling out a particular point of view. If you don't think he's not a racist and you have no way of disputing my assertion that his statement fits into a pattern of behavior, what could be the reason you choose to spend the time articulating a context that might cast doubt upon the claim that he is a racist? Judah On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Chris Stoner <[email protected]> wrote: > > To be absolutely, positively, Colorado mountain stream, crystal clear: my > intent is not to justify his joke. It was stupid, crude, in extremely bad > judgment and probably harmful for the reasons G states in his summary of > view points. I neither condone racism nor racist jokes. If you actually > read what I said, before letting your emotions obscure my words you would > note the following things: > > 1. I said I don't follow Rush so am not up to date on > every insensitive thing he has said. > 2. I tried to make it clear that my viewpoint was from the perspective of > this incident because ... (see point #1). > 3. At no point did I say Rush is not racist, rather I suggested that > making a racist comment doesn't make one a racist. > 4. I was not being combative in any way, shape nor form until you decided > condescension makes an effective form of persuasion. > > If he has a history of bigoted behavior, he probably is just as you claim, > but as per point #1, I can't speak to that nor have I tried. I simply don't > think a bad comment defines a person (see point #1). For instance, you > indirectly calling me a racist doesn't necessarily make you an a--hole. > > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Is it prejudicial? Yes. I'm prejudiced against racism and people who >> are apologists for racists. >> >> Judah > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:341714 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
