#24
by Blackadder » Aug 02, 2019 7:48 am
Being of mixed “race” myself, I always enjoy winding up people at both ends of the racism spectrum, the knuckle dragging white supremacists (to whom I look like I belong thanks to inheriting my mother’s very pale Scottish colouring) and the right-on, ‘all white men are guilty’ loons, who are terminally confused by the fact that am of Indian ancestry. And even more confused when they are told that I was born and raised Muslim without ever having been knowingly brown.
It always comes down to skin colour, and both political ends make judgements about people based on skin colour, while calling it “race”. I suppose the fascists at least would admit they are racist, in the sense of disliking people of certain pigmentations. The lefties usually have no clue how racist they are, in their fervour to beat up whitey for the colonialist sins of his forefathers.
That credulity should be gross in proportion to the ignorance of the mind that it enslaves, is in strict consistency with the principle of human nature. - Percy Bysshe Shelley