"But however logical it may be to harbor and rationalize racist views, and to defend racism in practice, in the long run, doing so is detrimental and counter-productive, even to those whites who, in the short-run, reap the benefits.
"After all, when folks start believing that a certain group is the dangerous one, to be avoided or repressed in some way, they are likely to let down their guards to the dangers posed by others--dangers that might, for them in fact, be greater than those about which they are hyper-alert."
2006-09-12
Wise: Rationalizing the Irrational
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Good job, Tim, arguing against these marginal weirdos on the fringes of society. However, even they aren't making the claim you argue against, which is: since some blacks have done me wrong, all blacks are bad. But if that's the argument you want to smash, good job.
"we never reach generalized conclusions about whites when they engage in acts of terrorism, and indeed, did not in the wake of Oklahoma City, or the crimes of the Unabomber, or the Olympic Park Bomber, or any of the dozens of abortion clinic bombings over the past two decades, all of which were committed by whites, so far as we can tell."
To the contrary, lots of blacks and honkey lefties generalize that whites are racist, that certain cracker neighborhoods are unsafe for blacks to live or visit, that white cops "racially profile" and otherwise target blacks for harrassment and brutality.
As for making generalizations about honkies based on Oklahoma City, the Unibomber, etc., in comparassion to muslim terrorism, those honkies have no larger societal encouragement or umbrage. In comparassion to blacks, blacks disproportinately commit more street crimes than honkies. For this reason even blacks are more scared of black men of a certain age group than they are of honkey boys or non-white immigrant males in this age group. You could make the point that people should be more scared of whites than immigrants from Asia, and statistically that makes sense, since white men are more likely tha non-white male immigrants to commit such crimes.
Statistically, blacks are making fewer constructive choices and more destructive choices on average than other groups, and this is resulting in a bad reputation. When this average merges with the overall average, I am sure that the reputation will follow. Non-white immigrants are on average making better choices on average than honkies, and indeed they have a better reputation in these areas, such as academics.
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