It's much better *kiss*, let me tuck you in now.
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[quote=filtherton;2563008]I never said Adkins was racist, I said he was ignorant. He believes in a concept called "white guilt" and he believes it is widespread. He believes it is widespread not because there is any sort of objective evidence that it is widespread, but because he wants it to be true. I would bet that he can't understand why people are concerned about trivial matters like "cultural context" and "history" because he isn't concerned about trivial matters like "cultural context" and "history" so he, being the stereotypical sympathy-challenged conservative, assumes that concern for trivial matters like "cultural context" and "history" are actually just contrived rationalizations of guilt. He can't relate to the reasons other people do things, so he assumes that those other people are lying about those reasons.[QUOTE]
I never said you said he was racist, and you may be dead on with your perception of him. "White guilt" and it's prevalence - I don't know, I don't really have much to say about it. If I'm forced to acknowledge the term itself, I suppose I would think DC in our most recent conversation exhibited some level of it. Its a term to me that immediately ends the conversation, because it's easy to argue against as you just did.
[QUOTE=filtherton;2563008]To be clear, conservatism, as it is portrayed by actual conservatives, is what concerns me. The whole "we believe the government shouldn't tell you what to do unless you're gay, or muslim, or etc" thing kind of throws me for a loop.[QUOTE]
I'll play the TFP liberal card here. Give me examples of where actual conservatives are telling gays and muslims what to do.
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Originally Posted by filtherton
Racism is an altogether distinct issue, though often people who dress themselves up as conservatives on the weekdays seem like the type who probably wouldn't have a problem dressing themselves up in clan sheets on the weekends.
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...and whaddya say to that. Perhaps we just live in two different worlds. Seriously? What?
I still feel like my point wasn't addressed, just diverted and ignored. OH well. I hoped I used the quoting thing correctly.