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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
I know what you are trying to say, but ticking off characteristics about Mccain or old American southerners and coming to the conclusion that there is a strong possibility that they are 'racists' is same stream of logic in action. I'm just trying to point out that it's not so different. It's just profiling again. I'm sorry, I know this thread is going badly. Some of it is my fault but I really vehmentely hate profiling, I hate generalizations, and I hate racism.
All of the above which I have personally experienced in Calgary and let me tell you, there isn't much that makes me angry or makes me feel hurt...but those things do.
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Let's not forget that when I was pointing out McCain's characteristics I was merely trying to support my viewpoint that it isn't totally out of the question to at least say that McCain may be a racist.
All that being said I empathize with your situation and being a white male I likely have not experienced profiling the way a person of Asian descent may have, like you. But I want to make it quite clear that my attempt at guessing whether or not McCain is a racist was based on numerous traits that, as I've said before are likely statistically proven to be traits more often associated with racism than numerous other demographics. While there are numerous traits that he does not possess that are likely associated with being racist too.
Generalizations are ok, racism is not. Profiling is ok (I'm thinking more criminals, sociology and not racial profiling at the airport where only brown people get "randomly" searched), using profiling to make concrete opinions isn't.
I don't mean to be rude but I'd say your oversensitivity has definitely got the best of you here, so much so that it has had an opposite affect where you've just assumed I must be a stupid, typical, stereotyping jack off. By doing so I actually got pretty offended because you were stereotyping me.