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I don't think every statement that mentions 'white' or 'black' should be considered racist.

• birracerveza 10y ago
  It should be considered racist in the context of the post. Why bring it up at all? He is explaining the reason that he stopped going, and bringing race into the mix. That is racism. As he himself stated, the real problem is the circlejerking nature of the community, and that would be the same were it a homogeneous group of white, black, green people or even a heterogeneous one. Sorry for the rant, especially since telemele explained this better than me, but it seriously irked me.
• DonHopkins 10y ago
  I totally agree with you, but in birracerveza's dead comment he strongly disagrees without offering any explanation: "He is explaining the reason that he stopped going, and bringing race into the mix. That is racism." No, that is not racism, but "many people" think that way because they have been wrongly taught to believe that any mention of race is racism, which is incorrect. And birracerveza is one of those "many people" who really need to educate themselves by reading up on the topic of racism, starting with "Mentioning Race Doesn't Make You a Racist [1]", and continuing on to wikipedia [2] to learn what racism really is. Hint: Ask yourself if Cbeck527 systematically oppressed anyone by "stopping going" or "bringing race into the mix"? [1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/sex-dawn/201001/mentioning-race-doesnt-make-you-racist https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/sex-dawn/201001/mention... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism