Racist?

Your predicament reminds me of my friend Bob.Let me tell you about my friend Bob.He goes about carrying a bust of Karl Marx in one hand, and a red flag in the other, and he always wears a Che Guevara t-shirt.And then people think that he's a communist.But in fact he despises communism, and is a hard-line capitalist of the Austrian School.And so Bob gets all upset that people think that he's a communist. Just because he goes about behaving like a communist of the deepest dye, people think that Bob is a communist.Now, I have tried suggesting to Bob that if he doesn't want people to think that he's a Marxist, maybe he should give up carrying that bust of Karl Marx everywhere he goes. But you will find his reply most sensible and cogent: he explains that it's the fault of the rest of the world if they infer that he's a Marxist. Shame on them.

Yes, that would be racism. None of which you are apparently willing to mention. And has nothing to do with what bluescat actually said. And would also be another complete non sequitur.---I'm guessing that since you are so angry and irrational and incoherent on the subject of race, you're a racist. 'Cos no-one but a racist needs to be so irrational and incoherent about this subject.Feel free to prove me wrong.

There is a difference between identifying fallacies and randomly naming them, and I would commend this difference to your study.

Were you molested by a rabbi?Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.

Really? You must find being wrong peculiarly gratifying.

Well, this is hardly a secret. The map below shows the intention homicide rate per 100,000 (darker blue is higher; gray means figures are not available). You're twice as likely to get murdered in Russia (B% ≈ 0.05%) than Barbados (B% ≈ 90%).Of course, your idea of "somewhere anyone may want to go" may differ from mine, but I'd rather be in Barbados.

Well of course when they said she was a "racist" they meant that she was "a conservative winning an argument with a liberal". Don't you ever read right-wing bumper stickers?

Because it was there. And your statistics about American cities didn't break it down street by street. So? We were asked for data about countries. Again, it's what I could find with a quick look round. Yeah, blue. But they're not the same shade of blue. Barbados is actually the same shade as the USA (I just copied the map into MS Paint and checked).I based my assertion on looking up the figures for Russia and Barbados directly, rather than reading them off the map. Russia, 14.9/100,000; Barbados, 7.49/100,000.That's not the only reason I'd rather be in Barbados. Have some figures.

Of course Semetic people are classed as white. Why else do people refer to Arabs as "sand crackers"?

Russians? Yeah, their country is a bit of a crock, isn't it?---Shall we compare statistics for crime and health and literacy and life expectancy and so forth between black Barbadians and black Americans? I can assure you that the black Barbadians are getting the better end of the deal.How are we to account for the difference? The Barbadians live on a tiny impotent island with an economy founded on tourism and sugar cane ... in a nation that's 90% black. The black Americans live in the world's only superpower and the richest nation in the world ... and have the supreme privilege of living with the elevating and ennobling influence of us white folk, who are always so solicitous for their well-being.How, then, shall we account for the differences between them? It's not their ancestry or their skin color, which are the same, and evidently it's not the difference between affluence and (comparitive) poverty. Damn, what is that elusive factor that makes all the difference?Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.

She's being racist.If she was in a hypothetical situation where she had to have unprotected sex with one of two men and the only information she was given about them was their skin color, then it would be a safer bet to choose the one who wasn't black, and one could find no fault with her.But in real life, no-one is obliged to judge people using their only their skin color as a proxy for the more relevant information which is in fact available to them.If an employer hires only Asian employees because on average they get better test scores, is that racist? Yes. Because he could look at the actual test scores. Which would not only be fairer to the workers, but would also result in a better qualified pool of employees.In real life, we always have the option of judging people: "not [...] by the color of their skin but by the content of their character"; which is not only fairer to them but also more advantageous to us. Anyone looking for an excuse not to do so is indeed being racist, not to mention stupid.

It's a federal offense to put mail in someone's mailbox?Sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing!

Also, since men are twenty times more likely to be serial killers than women, avoiding any contact of any sort with men is also the reasonable way to go. Assuming you don't want to murdered by a blood-crazed cannibal.

I'm planning to join a lesbian commune.I may have to lie a little on the application form.Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.

I see. From your link: Someone should call the FBI and have them arrest the kids. And, if possible, the puppies, I bet they were in on it somehow. Both small children and puppydogs have big cute eyes ... you can't trust people like that.