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Originally Posted by hip hop bunny hop
Of course what Tore was doing is racist. Morals and values are byproducts of culture, never independent. To call another society backward, to demand ones own government take action against it, all the while referencing ethnocentric concepts such as misogyny and democracy - that's racist. It reeks of the same idiotic propaganda and moralizing that preceded the colonizing of the Third World, the primary difference being that instead of doing it for Christ we're doing it for minority rights.
Get it John?
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You know, you could probably use the same logic to defend black slavery. You can't really judge the slave owners, since they were doing what they felt was moral. If black people are inferior sub-humans, then they need to be led and taken care of. By their own moral code, slave owners were perfectly moral. They may be the same race as myself, but would I be wrong to judge their society, even if I might give the slave owners themselves some leeway, just by virtue of the fact that they lived in a society where slavery was morally allowable?