Yes, you are. We ALL are… it’s not possible for a human being born in our moment of our species’ collective history, nor one born at any earlier moment, to not be racist, any more than it is for them to not be prone to sexism, nationalism, ableism, or for that matter just simple confirmation bias. We simply aren’t far enough removed from very recent — never mind still ongoing — atrocities committed solely on skin-color bias for the relatively small number among us who have actively engaged in what was until very recently criminalized miscegenation to claim to be free of tribalism. You’ll know you’ve stopped being racist when you and your wife and your children don’t even have a term for the differences between you, and never have had one… not a moment sooner.
> You’ll know you’ve stopped being racist when you and your wife and your children don’t even have a term for the differences between you, and never have had one… not a moment sooner.
What a ridiculous idea. There is literally nothing humans have ever percieved - or will ever perceive that doesn't have a term associated with it.
Also, your Whig historiography is manfestly untrue. Humans are fundamentally the same creatures as we ever were and always will be. History is cyclical.
If you want racial unity, then my family is just about as good as it gets. If you want racial harmony, then your desperate searching for grievances where there are none is just about the least helpful thing you could do.
But I suspect you know this already.
I used to think that the "anti-racists" were well intentioned, but simply misguided. It's clear now that there's nothing well intentioned about them - it's just about distilling grievances into power, and about the pleasure of seeing one's self as "one of the good ones".
> Humans are fundamentally the same creatures as we ever were and always will be.
Thank you for admitting that all humans are racist.
> History is cyclical.
Nothing whatsoever about history implies this to be true, but assuming it is gives me good reason to keep an eye out for future members of the Einsatzgruppen.
Yes, you are. We ALL are… it’s not possible for a human being born in our moment of our species’ collective history, nor one born at any earlier moment, to not be racist, any more than it is for them to not be prone to sexism, nationalism, ableism, or for that matter just simple confirmation bias. We simply aren’t far enough removed from very recent — never mind still ongoing — atrocities committed solely on skin-color bias for the relatively small number among us who have actively engaged in what was until very recently criminalized miscegenation to claim to be free of tribalism. You’ll know you’ve stopped being racist when you and your wife and your children don’t even have a term for the differences between you, and never have had one… not a moment sooner.