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Originally Posted by valo403
Did you seriously just compare a racial slur that is pretty much universally known with an incredibly obscure law? And more importantly, did you just take 5 paragraphs to do it?
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Nope. I was discussing the concept of "ignorance is no excuse." Someone else mentioned it earlier in the thread, and as it's something that I have often questioned, I took this opportunity to raise the issue.
In both events, the one I mentioned from last month and the one being discussed in this thread, ignorance was used as a defence - thus, my "in" for raising the issue I wanted to discuss.
My post was meant to move the discussion beyond the "he's a stupid fathead" that was prevalent in this thread.
Until we're able to emotionally detach ourselves from topics such as these, and be able to treat the discussion itself in a trivial manner, the process of moving forward is a pipe dream. Take two people conversing about the weather as an example. Both can clearly have their own opinions about whether the day is too hot or too cold, with neither person getting bent out of shape. However, in all our years of claiming "racial progress" we still can't talk about the real issues behind an action, without outlandish hyperbole and conjecture.
To me, the real issue isn't whether or not he said something bad, or if he should have said it at all... The real issue is whether or not a guy who grew up in a State with an overall Chinese population ratio of 0.5% was even responsible for
knowing that he wasn't supposed to say it.