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Re:Why Your Name Matters by walshemj on Saturday December 21, 2013 @11:34AM (#6947026)
I meant that as a privileged person even I can see that other groups and minorities have much harder time than I do - something you obviously do not - possibly you need to take a look at your self.

You where using a spurious "logical" argument to excuse racist views.

Re:Why Your Name Matters by lisper on Saturday December 21, 2013 @12:47PM (#6947288)
> something you obviously do not

Really? What makes that so obvious?

> You where using a spurious "logical" argument to excuse racist views.

Which racist views am I excusing? Because I don't think I'm excusing a racist view at all. Quite the contrary.

The only thing I've actually said that you could legitimately judge me by is that it important to qualify the statement "if you sound (or look) like you're black then white people won't hire you, or listen to you" because if you don't qualify it then it sounds like you are making a statement about all white people, and this statement is only true of some white people, not all white people. So if you don't qualify it, it's a racist slur, no different from saying, "Moslems are terrorists" or "black people are criminals". Some (but not all) Moslems are terrorists (and so are some non-Moslems), and some (but not all) black people are criminals (and so are some white people), and some (but not all) white people are racists (and so, by the way, are some black people).

Do you actually disagree with any of that?