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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: bela_ghoulashi who wrote (4959)	2/5/2001 2:01:53 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 82486

ok. The way I see it: tickling baby is to child molester as generalizing about people with regards to race is to racist If this were on an SAT I would think...worng answer. I always think it helps to know our motivations, behind our thoughts and actions- and to label them as well as we can. You don't like the label racist, because it is uncomfortable. But discomfort can spur people to action. Discomfort can cause people to look at themselves a little more deeply, a little more critically. Ideas are not good or bad, wrong or right (imo)- it is the actions you take on them. So if you happen to think of something (an idea) that if acted upon would be very bad for other people- but you reject that idea, I think: no problem. And good for you for analyzing the whole thing. My problem with not confronting our own racism is that we sometimes don't get to the step of rejecting a bad action, stemming from racism because we don't think we are racist and have no clue that racism is our motivation.