What is racism anyway? Is it racist to prefer your own race when choosing a spouse? Is it racist to be proud of your race and to be glad you were born the race you are?
What about other distinctions like gender, age, height, eye color, hair type, education, IQ, physical fitness, wealth?
What about loving and caring for those in our family way more than those who are not? Isn’t that the ultimate discrimination? What about teaching our children not to talk to strangers? What about locking our doors? All of these behaviors seem to have evolved to keep us safe.
I think it should all be fair game if we are to be free. If we place restrictions on criticizing or making fun of someone different than us, we are also restricting our right to have preferences, choices.
Someone explain to me why I shouldn’t notice skin color along with every other piece of information I have available to me, and form generalizations based on my experiences, observations and what I’ve been taught in order to try to predict and avoid negative outcomes.
Certainly, people should remain open to the possibility that their generalizations (prejudices) may be wrong and hurtful to others. But asking people not to do a full risk assessment, not to trust the familiar over the unfamiliar, not to avoid the unknowns, not to be alert for something that appears out of place, not to be suspicious - because it might hurt someone’s feelings - that’s like asking people not to survive.
I think a lot of things get called “racist”, a pejorative but vague term, in order to keep winners from winning so much. But I think it’s good for everyone when winners win. Competition produces innovation and prosperity - “a rising tide raises all ships”
If you believe in free enterprise, then you should embrace winning and choosing and all sorts of preferences, including race.
Here we go again with the vague question answering a question issue. Here - let’s make it easier for everyone to understand. It is offensive to compare a black person to a monkey. Period
The fact that this has to be explained either says you don’t give a rats a$$ or you are not too bright.