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Originally Posted by dc_dux
dk...please take another look at what i said a few post back: I just find it hard to equate an ugly temporary inconvenience (having your card spray painted)...and I will add here: or a black person hating a white person... with race based sentencing disparities in the criminal justice system...or race based lending disparities... or race based disparities in standardized college admission testing....that have a far more lasting impact.
cyn...even though you acknowledged that the two circumstances I described above are not equal in their impact, you still felt a need to characterize my interpretation of racism as "diarrhea" and carrying "all that baggage."
So yes, dk and cyn, we have a different working definition of racism and I will leave it at that. |
dc, to specifically address your point of contention about equation of circumstances, I have to call BS. Racism is exactly that, people of different races with enmity towards each other for the only reason of color. Whether its vandalism on a car door or 10 extra years in prison for the same crime committed by someone of a different color. It's racism......and it's wrong. It's also something i've never been able to understand.
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