tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2707924688937069498.post3318573833289379686..comments2024-03-28T17:45:53.417-04:00Comments on walk on: Has There Ever Been A Time When White Americans Weren't In Denial?Jesse Curtishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06180727194238153944noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2707924688937069498.post-45672755514121086862013-07-29T18:07:45.094-04:002013-07-29T18:07:45.094-04:00This is an interesting point. I do believe that, i...This is an interesting point. I do believe that, in the American context, racism is primarily a White problem. I certainly don't know anything about the French context! Racism is not intrinsically White, but in the American context some people want to draw a false equivalence between, say, a White supremacist and a Black power militant. That's a little bit like saying the bully on the playground who won't let anyone else use it is no more at fault than the kid who says ok I'll go build my own playground then. Ok, lame analogy. <br /><br />But to your main point: I do think the sort of othering an in-group prejudice you describe is innate to humanity, but most scholars seem to believe that racism, in particular, is a social creation. It IS othering, but the key point is that it is more than the innate othering we are born with. <br /><br />It is the most brutal, dehumanizing othering there is. If you are "uncivilized" you can become civilized. If you belong to the "wrong" religion, you can convert. If you are poor you can become rich. But if you are the wrong skin color? God help you. That particularly brutal kind of othering I think goes beyond our innate prejudices and stems from a specific social and historical context in the early modern era. That's how I've made sense of it anyway. I checked out your blog; I like your latest post. Giving up on inerrancy is hard, precisely because of the question you note. Where does it leave us in terms of figuring out truth? Jesse Curtishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06180727194238153944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2707924688937069498.post-24767344883521462832013-07-29T17:35:05.573-04:002013-07-29T17:35:05.573-04:00Hi, I've got one question:
do you believe tha...Hi, I've got one question:<br /><br />do you believe that racism is first and foremost a crime of white folks against other ethnic groups? <br /><br />Or could it be that every human being has some tendency towards in-group mentality and exclusion of out-groups, regardless of the color of his or her skin?<br /><br /><br />I believe that every form of discrimination against an other human due to factor she's not responsible for is a grave sin. <br /><br /><br />In an upcoming post, I'm going to explain how the refusal of so-called antiracists and antifachists in France to reecognize anti-white racism is fostering a climate of racial hatred and frustration.<br /><br />We should always fight injustice whoever the victims are.<br /><br /><br />Be blessed!<br /><br /><br /><br />Lothar's son - Lothars Sohn<br />http://lotharlorraine.wordpress.com/<br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com