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Originally posted by Shape Shifter
I view his interfaith worship much differently than I view the person who can't be racist because he went to high school with a black guy.
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Most people are racist, at least at some level. From time to time, biases will slip out. The question is do we treat biases differently depending on which type bias slips out.
The guy shows he not anti-semetic by saying his church shares space with a Jewish temple? It's not co-worship, which I think is pretty impossible, as an aside.This isn't even "I have black friends."
SS is right, its simply I went to school where black kids go, but they come in after/before we leave.
So its hard to see how this is different/less than Rush.
But all of it misses the real point.
There will always be racism. The way to limit its effect it to neutralize its power. In a perfect world this guy (or Rush) wouldn't be canned for saying something offensive, they might be canned because listeners would (eventually) realize the things they said were stupid.
If we stopped being indignant about stupid racist remarks we'd go along way towards taking away the power of the remarks.
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