Almalieque wrote:
Gbaji wrote:
Irrelevant. The question is whether there's a difference between someone's actions being perceived by a third party as "being racist" and whether that someone has admitted to being a racist. There's a massive world of difference between those two.
Can a person act out of racism and not be racist?
1. A person's actions may appear to be racism to you, but not to them.
2. If the person does not believe their actions are racism, then they don't view themselves as racists.
3. If they don't view themselves as racists, then they are not going to "admit" to being racists.
By labeling them "admitted racists", you're bypassing that entire very important bit of distinction.
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Here is me saying that the intent of the action is irrelevant because the outcome is still the same.
If you really thought it was irrelevant, then you wouldn't have called them "admitted racists". Racism is entirely about the intent behind the action. If I randomly act in a way that just happens to disproportionately harm one group more than another, that's not racism (or any "ism"). If I intentionally target one group for harm based on their race, then that's racial discrimination. If my reason for doing this is because I believe that my race is better that theirs, and thus they're deserving of harm for whatever reason, then it is racism. But you can't have racism without intent. You know this. It's why you needed to use that label, in fact. Even if you aren't consciously aware of it, that's what you were doing.
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You basically saw a couple of buzz words and created a strawman to argue. Now you're trying to back peddle to say that the contradiction was focused on the cops being racists AFTER you just said that you couldn't read minds. Funny how your mind reading skills work!
No. I saw you respond to one person making a statement of opinion about the cops, with your own statement that the cops had admitted that said opinion was true. It's like the difference between me saying that the Patriots cheat, and you saying that Belichek is an admitted cheater. One is me stating my opinion. The other is you claiming that the opinion has been confirmed by the party the opinion is about. That's a *huge* difference.
