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To: unlearner

OK, here is something not so snide; remove my ignorance, show some examples.

Back to snide; Bet you can’t.


61 posted on 05/13/2015 6:30:29 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (Is Ted Cruz himself as mean-spirited as the FR 'Click-it or Tick-it' Cruz Contingent?)
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To: Balding_Eagle

As I said, I do not have the time to police FR. If someone posts a racists comment to me, I will call it out.

While I will not attempt to locate examples, I will clarify what I consider to be racist. And I will point out that most overt cases ARE removed from FR. The ones that remain are typically more subtle.

For the record, I do not consider pointing out racial statistics and other facts to be racist. Pointing out and mocking the racial bias of the media is not racist.

However, mocking ethnic characteristics generally is. For example, posting a caricature of a black man with giant lips eating a watermelon could be construed by any reasonable person as trying to provoke a racial stereotype. The exception to this is if the discussion is a critique of such an image. In the latter case it is informative rather than provocative.

Another example would be a post about a black employee (based on a posted photo) who failed to do a good job in which the person posting describes the employee as obviously the result of EOC. The problem with such comments is that we have no way of knowing if a particular person has a job based on merit or racial quotas. Comments like this demean all black people because there are a huge number of black professionals who do an incredible job in their work and should not be stereotyped by their skin pigmentation.

Conservatism embraces personal responsibility which is incompatible with blaming a person who has a particular skin tone for the moral failure of people with a similar skin tone or other physical characteristics that are ethnically similar.

My comments are not directed at you or the vast majority of truly conservative Freepers who never have or would post a racist comment on this forum. For those who do, my best guess is they are probably a mix of leftists trolls seeing what they can get away with and some immature (think very young) conservative-leaning (meaning they have may have rejected liberalism but do not necessarily understand conservatism) participants who don’t know any better for whatever reason.

I certainly do not buy into the leftist meme that FR or tea party conservatives are racists. We are the least racist of any demographic.


63 posted on 05/14/2015 8:16:59 AM PDT by unlearner (You will never come to know that which you do not know until you first know that you do not know it.)
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