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> If someone else takes issue with my pov, they can also take solace in knowing I don’t respect them as people I won’t ever acknowledge. This is a strange pers

> If someone else takes issue with my pov, they can also take solace in knowing I don’t respect them as people I won’t ever acknowledge. This is a strange perspective. Do you think if I went through the heroes of your own ethnicity that I would find exclusively people with noble moral systems that would respect me and what I stand for? Should I "refuse to acknowledge" you if you admire your culture's historical figures in opposition to my dislike of them, or their dislike of me?

watwut 3y ago
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- quacked 3y ago
  I don't know what his ethnicity is, so I don't know if I know the heroes of his ethnicity or not. I know an unusual amount about world history and non-western cultures compared to the average person with my general characteristics, so I believe it unlikely that I "never paid attention" or "don't care". I am more interested in examining the moral double-standard implied by his comment, that it is just for him to refuse to acknowledge me if I admire Churchill, but that he would find it unjust if I refused to acknowledge him because he admired <hero from his own culture with beliefs I didn't like>.
  - thx-2718 3y ago
    "Speaking as a Black man from America, which is a racist society, no matter how much you hear it talk about democracy, it's as racist as South Africa or as racist as Portugal, or as racist as any other racialist society on this earth. The only difference between it and South-Africa: South-Africa preaches separation and practices separation; America preaches integration and practices segregation. This is the only difference. They don't practice what they preach, whereas South-Africa preaches and practices the same thing. I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil" - Malcolm X With Churchill I suppose people knew how he felt about them.

watwut 3y ago

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quacked 3y ago
I don't know what his ethnicity is, so I don't know if I know the heroes of his ethnicity or not. I know an unusual amount about world history and non-western cultures compared to the average person with my general characteristics, so I believe it unlikely that I "never paid attention" or "don't care". I am more interested in examining the moral double-standard implied by his comment, that it is just for him to refuse to acknowledge me if I admire Churchill, but that he would find it unjust if I refused to acknowledge him because he admired <hero from his own culture with beliefs I didn't like>.
- thx-2718 3y ago
  "Speaking as a Black man from America, which is a racist society, no matter how much you hear it talk about democracy, it's as racist as South Africa or as racist as Portugal, or as racist as any other racialist society on this earth. The only difference between it and South-Africa: South-Africa preaches separation and practices separation; America preaches integration and practices segregation. This is the only difference. They don't practice what they preach, whereas South-Africa preaches and practices the same thing. I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil" - Malcolm X With Churchill I suppose people knew how he felt about them.