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My point wasn’t about grammar. We capitalise belief systems and specific political ideologies, big ideas that have their own doctrines and which people can sign up for unequivocally – Christianity, Communism, Islam, Nazism. To see racism as ‘Racism’ is to mistake it for a specific political ideology. Now, that kind of Racism exists, but it’s much less widespread or, in my opinion, dangerous, than the normal everyday racisms that infect each and every one of us. Stop thinking that I was “calling” Count Adam a “Racist”, and try thinking about it from a different angle. Amazingly, some people have conversations about these kind of ideas every day, even elsewhere on the internet, without getting defensive or personal. I thought you wanted to take it to a personal level, and responded in kind – if I misunderstood what kind of interaction you wanted to have, then I apologise.
Wipe away that tear, Olulabelle – in terms of the struggle for what Barbelith’s dominant values should be, I think it’s clear by now that I’ve lost. |
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