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Originally Posted by browna
And you watch too many movies.
Given that gross generalization, its a minor miracle that there's not still slavery in the south with an aging population.
What about the atheist white middle class 80 year old man who fought in Korea and has no affilation wth either of the two parties?
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WTF do movies have to do with this? (definitely not Paul Newman movies though
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Well he could very likely be a racist too. (the man in your example)
Look at it this way, if someone told you there was a gangland shooting in harlem who would you suspect the assailant to be?
If you had to generalize what traits would you give this person? Don't lie.
If you said a young black male I don't think that makes you a racist it just means that you have an understanding of the world we live in and are able to make generalizations about people.
That is not to say that you would assume that all young black males are gang involved, drug dealing murderers just as I don't assume all elderly, old, white, rich republicans are racist. Just that they may have a higher rate of racism, just like how you assumed that the assailant in my example was probably a young black male.