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Free Advice on How to Shut Down the Race Card. (Remember, you get what you pay for)
Dictionary.com ^ | 09-17-09 | vgova3

Posted on 09/17/2009 1:58:09 PM PDT by vg0va3

Tired of having the race card played, but not have a rebuttal because you can't disprove the accusation?

I am. Instead, I try to frame the conversation around the definition of the word Racism - The belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/racism

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TOPICS: Education; Society
KEYWORDS: racism
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To: vg0va3
Aphorisms of Nicolás Gómez Dávila have been useful for me while talking to liberals about, among other things, race:
The racist is annoyed because he secretly suspects that the races are equal. The anti-racist is annoyed because he secretly suspects that they are not

An individual declares himself a member of some group or other with the goal of demanding in its name what he is ashamed to claim in his own name.

More here
21 posted on 09/17/2009 3:12:11 PM PDT by Brugmansian
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To: vg0va3
but not have a rebuttal because you can't disprove the accusation

a person could try saying that he believes in individualism, and free will,and judges people by their own personal character and actions, and that a government that is limited and just and a society that is free helps to block racism. And also say that the opposite liberal worldview of collectivism, determinism, and statism encourages racism.

22 posted on 09/17/2009 3:52:11 PM PDT by mjp (pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, independence, limited government, capitalism})
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To: Lurker

>>Never argue with an idiot. They’ll drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.<<

And then call you an idiot. ;)

It is one of those “pearls before swine” things...


23 posted on 09/17/2009 3:53:40 PM PDT by RobRoy (The US today: Revelation 18:4)
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The logic card doesn’t work on liberals.

As Dearoldad Sr. used to say (he was borne and raised in Louisiana) "I am an equal opportunity bigot I hate everybody"

24 posted on 09/17/2009 4:05:15 PM PDT by dearolddad
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To: Brugmansian

My head just exploded.


25 posted on 09/17/2009 5:21:45 PM PDT by vg0va3 (I don't plan to quit the fight until it is finally over.)
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To: Brugmansian

Thank you for posting that link. Amazing!


26 posted on 09/17/2009 5:28:50 PM PDT by Judith Anne (Drill here! Drill NOW! Defund the EPA!)
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To: Judith Anne; vg0va3
Nicolás Gómez Dávila is good, isn't he?

He is a one example of the lock the left has had on translations for over half a century. If he had been a marxist, he would be as well known as Sartre and Foucault. Marxists get translated. Conservatives do not. The New York publishing houses and our universities are not interested.

27 posted on 09/17/2009 6:03:25 PM PDT by Brugmansian
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To: vg0va3

I might have to give that a try. Thanks for posting it.


28 posted on 09/17/2009 11:05:21 PM PDT by Kevmo (So America gets what America deserves - the destruction of its Constitution. ~Leo Donofrio, 6/1/09)
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