renard_ruse
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A thread on a hockey discussion board today got me thinking. Someone posted a message saying PK Subban (a black hockey player for the Montreal Canadiens) was a "disgrace to humanity." The post said nothing about Subban's race in any way. Suddenly multiple self-appointed "racism fighters" immediately joined the thread condemning the original poster, calling him/her "racist," making snide comments attacking the poster's intelligence, sarcastic mean comments of various nature, etc. The usual for the internet. All without any evidence of any kind the comment even had anything to with Subban's race.
It got me to thinking about the mentality of the self-appointed "anti-racists" (self-appointed against white supposed "racism" of course, they don't normally care about racism against whites). It became clear to me long ago that most self-appointed militant "anti-"racists"" (particularly white ones, blacks are just standing up for their own group for the most part whether justified or not) are simply the contemporary version of self-righteous judgementalists. They don't even need to wait for facts, don't respond with any kind of proportionality to the alleged offense, and more or less completely dehumanize anyone they decide is guilty of this purported "racism" with or without any real evidence of it.
We don't burn witches at the stake, we don't judge people for sexual sins anymore, we don't "tisk tisk" at the divorced or the cohabitating or single mothers, we don't beat up homosexuals. So what's left for the self-righteous personality type to do? Well, there's always "racism" and "racists" who are the new "scum" we can beat up on and ostracize.
If you think about it, its the same thing just a different socially unpopular group to attack to make insecure people feel morally superior and like they are making society better without actually doing a damn thing to improve it.
It got me to thinking about the mentality of the self-appointed "anti-racists" (self-appointed against white supposed "racism" of course, they don't normally care about racism against whites). It became clear to me long ago that most self-appointed militant "anti-"racists"" (particularly white ones, blacks are just standing up for their own group for the most part whether justified or not) are simply the contemporary version of self-righteous judgementalists. They don't even need to wait for facts, don't respond with any kind of proportionality to the alleged offense, and more or less completely dehumanize anyone they decide is guilty of this purported "racism" with or without any real evidence of it.
We don't burn witches at the stake, we don't judge people for sexual sins anymore, we don't "tisk tisk" at the divorced or the cohabitating or single mothers, we don't beat up homosexuals. So what's left for the self-righteous personality type to do? Well, there's always "racism" and "racists" who are the new "scum" we can beat up on and ostracize.
If you think about it, its the same thing just a different socially unpopular group to attack to make insecure people feel morally superior and like they are making society better without actually doing a damn thing to improve it.
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