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Originally Posted by Winsor_Pilates
So guilty until proven innocent?
why should people have to prove themselves to you before you can refer to them with any decency?
I've had bad experiences with some white people. Should every white person have to prove themselves to me before I respect them or think they're not racist?
It doesn't sound contradictory, it definately sounds descriminatory.
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No, not guilty til proven innocent. I'm judging them as a whole, by how their leadership makes them appear. When leadership represents them with absurd claims such as the latest one, how are we not to judge them by their leader. Americans, for the most part, are great people, and a lot of the world hates the Americans because of the way they are represented by their leaders. Is that so wrong to believe a groups representation is reflective of their majority?
I treat individuals as that, individuals. But when talking about a group of people, how can I not generalize? There has to be differences within the group, but when they are represented as a whole, they must viewed as a group, hence the 'paint brush' effect.
White people, me included, can be some of the most annoying, greedy, ignorant s on the planet...but, those attributes do not contain themselves to a particular race. It's not so much 'guilty until proven innocent', as much as it is 'show me you are not what your leader makes me think you are'