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In reply to the discussion: Prejudice against whites is not the same as prejudice against blacks [View all]TeamsterDem
(1,173 posts)That you refuse to accept that is both telling and vicariously embarrassing.
As I said to the OP, the frequency of a stupid act doesn't make it better or worse. Arguing the advanced likelihood of something occurring doesn't make what causes it to happen any different. Any racist or any other such person who discriminates against people is equally as bad as any other person who does the same thing.
What you're doing is accepting the OP's gist because it's one with which you agree but ignoring the parts of his argument which made no sense. In plain English the statement that "prejudice against whites is not the same as prejudice against blacks" INTRINSICALLY means that the prejudice itself - not the outcomes, but the act of prejudging based upon race - is something which is in some way different when one group does it as opposed to when another does it. That you can't read English to decipher what the words plainly mean - or more likely, that you're choosing to overlook that clumsy sentence because the broader argument suits your worldview - isn't something I'd be as cocky as you're being, were I ever in your position. Of course I wouldn't be there because I think language and its meaning are important things. Shame that you don't share that view.
Any form of prejudice is wrong, and they're all equally stupid. In other words, everyone who prejudges another person is "the same" as any other racist moron. That English is escaping you is - as you said to me - something with which you'll have to deal, for I'll not accept the responsibility for your English language failings.