Soren wrote on Nov 7
th, 2014 at 1:20pm:
Brian Ross wrote on Nov 6
th, 2014 at 11:07pm:
Soren wrote on Nov 6
th, 2014 at 3:27pm:
You are not asking honest questions. you are sniffing for heresy.
Nope. I'm asking an honest question. I'm trying to figure out how you can hold such a strange belief that you aren't allowed to correctly identify an argument for what it is.
If it isn't "racism", then what is it, Soren? Well?
Identifying someone's race is not racism. Identifying cultural traits that are shared by certain races is not racist.
Ah, so the use of the pejorative "n_i_g_g_e_r" isn't "racist" then, Soren?
Identifying their "race" isn't racist, I'll admit but identifying it with a pejorative, insulting term is, isn't it?
Quote:Criticising and disliking a religion or any other belief system is not bigoted.
Surely it is, after you keep repeating the same views, despite them being shown to be incorrect and pejorative, Soren? If you were making such views known once or even twice, I'd agree, they weren't bigoted but making them continuously and knowing they are because of pejorative beliefs, not facts, would be, now wouldn't it, Soren?
Quote:Lumping questions about race and ideology together, as you do, is really stupid because one is a matter of personal, conscious choice and the other isn't.
Ah, but in this context, I have not. I have carefully separated them out, now haven't, I, Soren, to prevent you from deliberately conflating them as you usually do. So, why are you adverse to answering the questions?
Quote:Adhering to particular cultural traits that are closely identified with a particular race is also a conscious, personal choice. So if you are a black man, nobody can fault you for that. But if you are, say, an American black man and you abandon your children (
almost 70 percent of black children are born to single mothers), then you are making a conscious choice and and it is your responsibility. People noticing and speaking out loud about the fact that an awful lot of black American men do this is not racist at all.
Ah, so this justifies calling them "n_i_g_g_e_r_s", does it, Soren?
Quote:Avoiding the toxic ghetto culture is also a personal choice. In the end, are black men (and women) responsible for the state of black culture in America? Yes. Only them? No. But mostly.
So, you admit that the surrounding white culture and of course it's history of it's interaction with black culture has some hand in forming this "toxic ghetto culture"?
Quote:Cultivating a belief system - which is what religion is - is a conscious decision. If you join the Labor Party, any criticism of it will reflect on your choice - as will any praise. Not every member of the Labor Party is like Kevin Rudd? Great. But I can still criticise the Labor Party and do not need to qualify my criticism with "but not everyone in the Labor Party is like Kevni". I can even say that anyone who joins the Labor Party is suspect. Or the Liberal Party, if that's your bend, Or the Greens, Commies, Nazis, Catholics, Scientologists, atheists.
You don't have to like every belief system and you CAN say that certain ideological choices are suspect. Especially if what you are treating with disdain is in the party manifestos and the sacreed texts and are borne out by the words and deed of the adherents.
Ah, so, you do believe in "guilt by association" then? So, if you blame the entire Labor Party for say, the mistakes of it's leader, Kevin Rudd, despite the general membership actually having very little ability to select the Parliamentary Leader, is OK?
So, if a single Muslim decides to go on a murderous rampage because of a mental health problem you're content with blaming his religion, yet when a single Christian decides to go a murderous rampage because of a mental health problem, you're content not to blame his religion? And because you blame the Muslim's religion for his actions, therefore you believe all Muslims are of course responsible for what ever crime he has committed but not all Christians are for the the crimes of the Christian?
Do you detect any inconsistency in that approach as a Psychiatrist?
Quote:Your sniffing for heresy and yapping about 'not every member of [your ideology here] is like every other member" is ludicrous.
Is it? Or have I exposed the inconsistencies and of course contradictions in your think, again, Soren?