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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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Nonsense. What you're basically saying is that it's racist for westerners to adhere to their own culture's values - the very thing you're trying to defend other cultures for doing.