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Originally Posted by MoonlitSunshine
Jansz, If they have honestly found that to be the case with everyone of that grouping that they have met, then that's fair enough by my book. The amusing thing is that you are doing exactly that with your statement about racists. Are you "racist", or guilty of the same stereotyping as racists by making a statement about all racists? I personally find that people who I would consider racists are much more likely to claim that they have a reason, but in actual fact they don't, or it is based on a very, very small sample space.
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I think you've got the point I was making backwards. Let me put it a different way: Imagine for a moment that you and I are talking to a person who we'd both agree is racist. Now imagine asking him why he hates X group of people. Do you really think his answer is going to be, "Dunno, just don't like the look of 'em I guess"? Of course not. He's going to tell about how they're all thieves or they're all drunks or whatever and he's going to have reasons why he believes that. The point is simply that, in your previous post, you were trying to define racism in a way that doesn't apply to actual human reality. Again, people will always have some kind of justification for racist beliefs, but that doesn't mean their beliefs aren't racist.