We are 12 pages in and despite numerous studies, links, articles that shows racism to be a massive problem in the US, Seattle still refuses to accept it.
At what point do we say 'hmmm, perhaps this isn't ignorance, perhaps this is actually hatred', particularly as he continues to push the same racist stereotypes throughout these 12 pages?
How many more excuses are we going to make for him?
Then perhaps you should refrain from making such statements when you are ignorant of the facts and comments made in a thread?
Because he is racist, Wegs.
12 pages in, numerous links have been posted, he is still making racist stereotypes and still arguing racism isn't a problem in the US while making said racist stereotypes while scoffing at white privilege.
Have you ever paused to consider that sometimes, one is ignorant because one is hateful?
Every single racist and white supremacist is ignorant. They choose to be ignorant because they are racist. As I noted earlier in this thread, racism is a choice. Seattle chooses to be ignorant, because he chooses to be racist.
Others would disagree.
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't force him to drink it. He has been provided with more than enough of the correct information to educate him and make him aware that he is wrong and perhaps provide an inkling of self reflection.
Here is the thing about racists Wegs, they don't give a toss and they will refuse to acknowledge it, or worse, they will complain about the information provided and they will continue with the same racist stereotypes while denying racism is an issue and that the only reason black people are poor is because of those racist stereotypes..
You have read a lot of Seattle's posts? That's nice. I have had to deal with countless racist white supremacists in my time and thwy all exhibit the same pattern as Seattle exhibited throughout this thread..
Because that is what he chooses. And it is a
deliberate choice.
Denial is the heartbeat of racism, beating across ideologies, races and nations. It is beating within us. Many of us who strongly call out [President] Trump’s racist ideas will strongly deny our own. How often do we become reflexively defensive when someone calls something we’ve done or said racist? How many of us would agree with this statement: “‘Racist’ isn’t a descriptive word. It’s a pejorative word. It is the equivalent of saying, ‘I don’t like you.’” Those are actually the words of White supremacist Richard Spencer, who, like Trump, identifies as “not racist.” How many of us who despise the Trumps and White supremacists of the world share their self-definition of “not racist”?
What’s the problem with being “not racist”? It is a claim that signifies neutrality: “I am not a racist, but neither am I aggressively against racism.” But there is no neutrality in the racism struggle. The opposite of “racist” isn’t “not racist.” It is “antiracist.” What’s the difference? One endorses the idea of a racial hierarchy as a racist or racial equality as an antiracist. One either believes problems are rooted in groups of people, as a racist, or locates the roots of problems in power and policies, as an antiracist. One either allows racial inequities to persevere, as a racist, or confronts racial inequities, as an antiracist. There is no in between space of “not racist.” The claim of “not racist" neutrality is a mask for racism.... This may sound harsh, but it’s important at the outset that we apply one of the core principals of antiracism, which is to return the word “racist” itself back to its proper usage. “Racist” is not — as Richard Spencer argues — a pejorative. It is not the worst word in the English language; it is not the equivalent of a slur. It is descriptive, and the only way to undo racism is to consistently identify and describe it — and then dismantle it. The attempt to turn this usefully descriptive term into an almost unusable slur, is, of course, designed to do the opposite: to freeze us into inaction.
I am not really allowed to answer that question.
But I do think the repeated excuses for racism and racist members has to stop, be it from staff and members alike.
