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<blockquote data-quote="zubenelgenubi" data-source="post: 4833410" data-attributes="member: 63706">I don&#039;t know what else to say to make you understand that &quot;don&#039;t say or do racist things&quot; is meaningless, particularly coming from someone whose entire world view is based on dividing people into arbitrary groups based on skin color.I had this conversation with a lovely young lady back in high school. The truth and the candor of what she said to me completely changed the trajectory of the evolution of my thinking. The gist of what she said was that even if all the people you wish would die did, there will always be more people whose views you find intolerable, who you wish would just die, and then the world, in your mind, would be a better place.You see, that wish for others to die so the world can conform to your views, that&#039;s what Hitler, and Stalin, and Mao Zedong, and Pol Pot all believed. You, and many like you, are being sucked into that same mindset.I don&#039;t take it upon myself to tell others how to feel, I get told all the time that my feelings aren&#039;t justified, and I don&#039;t particularly care for it when it comes from people who don&#039;t know or care about me. I can be just a human, saying that something another human is doing is not ok. It doesn&#039;t have to be about race, if you don&#039;t go out of your way to make it about race.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="zubenelgenubi, post: 4833410, member: 63706"] I don't know what else to say to make you understand that "don't say or do racist things" is meaningless, particularly coming from someone whose entire world view is based on dividing people into arbitrary groups based on skin color. I had this conversation with a lovely young lady back in high school. The truth and the candor of what she said to me completely changed the trajectory of the evolution of my thinking. The gist of what she said was that even if all the people you wish would die did, there will always be more people whose views you find intolerable, who you wish would just die, and then the world, in your mind, would be a better place. You see, that wish for others to die so the world can conform to your views, that's what Hitler, and Stalin, and Mao Zedong, and Pol Pot all believed. You, and many like you, are being sucked into that same mindset. I don't take it upon myself to tell others how to feel, I get told all the time that my feelings aren't justified, and I don't particularly care for it when it comes from people who don't know or care about me. I [I]can[/I] be just a human, saying that something another human is doing is not ok. It doesn't have to be about race, if you don't go out of your way to make it about race. [/QUOTE]

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