RE: Definition of Racism (without rent-a-riot)
From: Joe Dees (joedees@addall.com)
Date: Thu Aug 09 2001 - 23:09:27 MDT
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> "Russell Blackford" <rblackford@hotmail.com> extropians@extropy.org RE: Definition of Racism (without rent-a-riot)Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 13:26:49 +1000
>Reply-To: extropians@extropy.org
>
>Lee said
>
>>Racist:
>> One who is antagonistic towards someone else based on that
>> person's race alone.
>
>I think this captures a lot of it. But it might not be antagonism - someone
>who feels friendly contempt, or who feels pity for an "inferior" race, would
>also be racist. And what if it's based predominantly on the person's race
>but also on something else?
>
>I think it's a term that can do with a lot of careful unpacking whenever it
>is used in serious intellectual discourse.
>
I have already stated that I feel concescension to be a more insidious form of racism than hostility. As for multiple bases for prejudice and discrimination, I do agree that most racists 'bundle' cultural and genetic differences, and make little or no attempt to distingush between them, or even give the matter much thought. After all, bigotry is a cognitive shortcut for the intellectually lazy; it provides the bigot with a ready-made, cookie-cutter, one-size-fits-all opinion of people whom they just met, without all the mental hassle of actually interacting with and evaluating them as individuals - kinda like considering all pickup-with-a-gun-rack southerners to be fascist racists or all folks who wish reasonable restrictions placed upon gun ownership to be commie pinkoes.
>
>Russell
>
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