Posted on 05/02/2014 5:38:50 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
There may be a lot wrong with that rationale, but I wonder if a corollary of that notion may be that racism is a matter of public acts (involving the use of power), not about the expression of emotions in private.
If Blacks grumbling about Whites in private (or in public) isn't racism, then is an old White man grumbling about Blacks in private really racism either?
Sterling was powerful man and he did have a record of racial discrimination in the past, but this kind of ethnocentrism -- don't mix with those others -- is something you could hear everyday all around the world if you could eavesdrop on everyone's conversations.
“Same here, if you are Whitey you are racist no matter what you say or feel about racism. We are at a point now in society that we will be constantly verbally walking on eggshells, afraid of any potential slip of the tongue, in particular when it comes to all issues of race.”
We’re already past that; there is open and legal discrimination against whites (originally just the men; now the women are off the “preferred minority” list - due to pressure from blacks who see them as “privileged”), and while “polar bear hunting” attacks aren’t everywhere yet, the media blackout about them is most troubling.
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