Gandalf, you keep leaping into, then running away from the subject of inbreeding, without it ever actually going anywhere. Why can't you follow through?
Quote:Why would I need to quote you, FD? You know what you think. You disagreed with the invasion of Iraq then - and you agree with it now: the reversal of most people's opinion, but there you have it.
I still don't think we should have invaded Iraq.
Quote:You are getting closer, and I'm glad to see you finally concede "actual races" (and who knows what that is) are not necessary for racism to exist. That is a good starting point. But when you start with this premise, your continued insistence that racism still requires a race to be specifically defined becomes redundant. Why would it? If you already acknowledge that racism can be based on "fake" races, why can't it be based on other "fake" and abritrary categorisations
Because words have meaning Gandalf. If you refer to a different method of categorisation, you are not refering to a race. To do so cheapens the experience of the victims of genuine racism.
Quote:Your assertion that 'sand negro' is defining race is just as baseless as my assertion that labelling the entire muslim population inbred retards is defining race. Sure, you can say that 'sand negro' is "defining" a race, but its redundant and meaningless anyway - especially when you already acknowledge it doesn't even matter if its an "actual" race.
My definition of a sand negro necessarily involves someone whose parents are a sand negro. Your definition of a Muslim does not involve someone whose parents are a Muslim. Hence, one is a race, the other is not.
Quote:The only relevant point about 'sand black person', in terms of being racist, is that like all racist terms its a blanket broad-stroke that reduces a diverse and disparate group of people into one big monolith - homogenised by their inferiority and negative attributes.
You would like that to be the case, because then you could broaden racism to include mocking Muslims. But we must still fall back to the actual meaning of the word.
Quote:Now where did I say that?
I was trying to make sense of your statement, quoted above that comment. Hence the paraphrasing. I was trying to get to the bottom of the distinction you are trying to make between racist and non-racist criticism of Muslims. But every time I look at it, the distinction disappears. You can only dance around it with longwinded descriptions, but there is nothing of substance there.
Quote:It seems as though Frank is saying that the more barbaric (authentic) a muslim is, depends on their level of tintedness. Do you consider this racist?
Sure.