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Originally Posted by wittynickname
Give me a single reason, any single reason, why someone would have reason to complain about Michelle Obama as a first lady, or their daughters?
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Basically, if you really hate Obama, even for reasons other than his being black, you probably don't think much of the Obamas, or Michelle.
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Again, you always go for the extreme view. I'm not saying that these people are trying to find a KKK meeting to join in on, or that they're going to join the Nazi party. But racism isn't a black or white issue, racism can be incredibly overt, or it can be subtle, in a way that the person doesn't even quite grasp how racist they're being.
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See, here's the thing. What do you think "racism" means? For me, it's devaluation of a group of people as worth less - thinking that they're less intelligent or less capable or of worse character - on the basis of their race.
I'd agree that there are more overt forms of racism than others, certainly, and I don't think
all racist people are
maliciously so (some are simply ignorant), but that's the crux of it for me. If you can accidentally be a racist, without consciously harboring any prejudicial views against people of another race on the basis of their race, I just don't think the term would have the moral weight that it rightly holds.