When you start picking and choosing what you believe in like that, you're no longer really apart of the group. I've heard of people calling themselves Christians without actually believing in Jesus, saying that the Bible is a book of moral codes that have stood the test of time without actually believing the events within.
But as far as racism goes, yes. We are all racist. Not one person that has grown up in white suburbia America is going to get on a bus, see two empty seats adjacent to each other positioned next to a black man and a white woman, and sit next to the black guy. Unless that woman smelled of ass and took up half of the other seat with her avalanche of fat rolls, you're going to sit next to her. This isn't because you hate blacks, but it's because you feel more comfortable next to someone you look like. This is human nature 101.
Now, there are people that do hate blacks. And yes, when you're stuck inside that racial group as an outlying member it sucks. Imagine being a preteen in the Bronx and being picked up for a vandalism crime you didn't commit. The police are conditioned to assume you did it and your family is likely going to believe you did it. That's the downside of belonging to a group. That's the catch of associating yourself with a larger assimilation of people. The difference between feminism and black people is that black people didn't decide one day to be black.
When you take on a label, like Catholicism, or Feminism, or Atheism, you're asking to be judged by the merits and misconceptions of the group as a whole. You become a child-molester, a man-hater, a Satan-worshiper.
But as far as racism goes, yes. We are all racist. Not one person that has grown up in white suburbia America is going to get on a bus, see two empty seats adjacent to each other positioned next to a black man and a white woman, and sit next to the black guy. Unless that woman smelled of ass and took up half of the other seat with her avalanche of fat rolls, you're going to sit next to her. This isn't because you hate blacks, but it's because you feel more comfortable next to someone you look like. This is human nature 101.
Now, there are people that do hate blacks. And yes, when you're stuck inside that racial group as an outlying member it sucks. Imagine being a preteen in the Bronx and being picked up for a vandalism crime you didn't commit. The police are conditioned to assume you did it and your family is likely going to believe you did it. That's the downside of belonging to a group. That's the catch of associating yourself with a larger assimilation of people. The difference between feminism and black people is that black people didn't decide one day to be black.
When you take on a label, like Catholicism, or Feminism, or Atheism, you're asking to be judged by the merits and misconceptions of the group as a whole. You become a child-molester, a man-hater, a Satan-worshiper.
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