Originally posted by: Moonbeam
Originally posted by: waggy
wait!? so calling someone you think is a racist (and i can see how some have that idea) a racist is now racist? damn. where is moonbeem and his self hate bs?
I'm right here. I generally call Nutxo Nutso and I can't figure out how that makes me anything but more accurate at naming him than he is.
If I call a plant green does that make me a greener.
Calling somebody a racist can be a number of things. It can be a slur and an attempt to tar and innocent person. It can be an exaggeration of racial insensitivity, or it could be that you are calling a spade a spade. To properly apply adjectives to things for which the modifiers are descriptive is nothing more than nomenclature, if you ask me.
Now one thing Nutso might want to consider is that if he pretends that calling a racist is racist it may be because HE is the racist who wants to pretend he can be a racist and turn the table on those who correctly label him so. Well that just won't work.
I'm not sure how I can fit self hate in here. We know that racists hate themselves and use the other as a handy place to project their own inferiority. Racists always look down.
Also the notion that we hate ourselves is very disturbing to some people, because we all know unconsciously it is true. So when somebody like me suggests that you hate yourself it can sometimes stick in the craw. Our self hate is so great that even mentioning it can get the teller in trouble. We always shoot the messenger, you see.