pudge's Journal: Racism Is Apparently Only Bad If It's From Whites

Witness this. Many in the press knew about this for months, and no one reported on it until now.

She is saying, unequivocally: vote against people who aren't the same color as you are.

And the press has given her a pass.

Just incredible.

Screw her, and screw all other racists, of any color.

actually

[stoolpigeon]

the way many define racism - in American only whites can be racist. You are usually very specific in your use of language and so I think it is worth remembering that just defining racism [wikipedia.org] is an interesting task. I think the way you use it here is pretty commonly accepted, but quite often you spend a lot of time correcting such common (mis)conceptions in regards to words.
 
prejudice might work better here.

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[pudge]

the way many define racism - in American only whites can be racist. You are usually very specific in your use of language and so I think it is worth remembering that just defining racism [wikipedia.org] is an interesting task.

Yes, I am very specific in my words, and I will be specific here: racism, as I use it, and always will use it, is special treatment -- positive or negative, including attitudes -- toward a given race.

prejudice might work better here.

Not at all. That word specifically does not fit. Prejudice would be to judge someone by their race. For example, vote Hispanic because a Hispanic would well-represent you, and a white person wouldnot. That is prejudice: pre-judging someone. But this is just plain racism.

There is no free pass

[Nymz]

The situation you are bringing attention to, appears to be a good example of something we learned about only a couple days ago, in this Slashdot article: Brain Differences In Liberals and Conservatives [slashdot.org]

FTA - "Exploring the neurobiology of politics, scientists have found that liberals tolerate ambiguity and conflict better than conservatives because of how their brains work."

Clearly in this situation a liberal (Venus Velazquez) [venus4seattle.com] is better able to tolerate the ambiguity and conflict of her position, than a c

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[pudge]

Ahhhhhh, I see. :-)