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To: Mr Ramsbotham

The writer of this article is correct and incredibly racist

One can be both at the same time in some instances

God knows I go off sometimes with my emotions filled and say racist things

I’m not a writer.

Who should be proofreading is work to make sure he just doesn’t come across as a hateful vengeful racist

I wonder if he is a Christian. Or just one of those part-time ones

I myself am guilty of being a part-time one. I am trying

He is 100% percent correct about the transplant being wasted. I never said he wasn’t


4 posted on 05/19/2020 11:12:12 PM PDT by dp0622 (Radicals N racists dont point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin to make ends meet)
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To: dp0622

No, I didn’t get that impression at all. He is saying that some people, institutions, nationalities and ideologies are beyond redemption, not that race itself contributes to the condition. It’s a classic error to believe that if (for example) you criticize a black man, your criticism is founded on his being black. And it’s more often than not true that once a person reaches a certain level of badness, and the badness becomes ingrained within him, that person is beyond any viable attempt to redeem him.


6 posted on 05/19/2020 11:36:25 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: dp0622

Facts are not racist. Some people are unsalvageable. The color of their skin has nothing to do with it.

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7 posted on 05/19/2020 11:49:18 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: dp0622
Who should be proofreading is work to make sure he just doesn’t come across as a hateful vengeful racist

This sentence is unintelligible. Perhaps some words are missing in it?

Me thinks your work could also use some proofreading.

Regards,

9 posted on 05/20/2020 12:51:57 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: dp0622

I don’t see anything racist about it.

Any racism was in the thug’s champions suggesting folks were racist for not immediately giving him a new heart and perhaps an ass kissing.


10 posted on 05/20/2020 3:43:42 AM PDT by Adder ("Can you be more stupid?" is a question, not a challenge.)
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To: dp0622

I don’t understand why you contend the author is racist. To my eyes, he is pointing out the facts surrounding two disparate transplant situations, where the cry of racism was used in one to overcome the clear pattern of criminal behavior by the recipient.

As Christians, we are not called to ignore racism and hatred - we are called to combat it. Acknowledging the reality of someone’s ongoing behavior is not racist at all - it is knowing the person by their fruit.

American society is plagued by a well-trained Pavlovian response to the word “racist” combined with an extremely racist definition of the word, where only certain ethnicities can be adjudged to harbor racist thoughts because of a supposed “imbalance of power”. The Pavlovian response ingrained into us is to cower in fear, and to hurl ourselves against the spikes protruding from the shield of the word “racist” as if in bleeding we absolve the “sin” our accusers proclaim.

Racism is real, but it is not what American society proclaims it to be. Racism is the inherent belief in superiority or inferiority of one or more races (or ethnic groups).

Highlighting the weaponized use of the word “racism” cannot be, in and of itself, racist, IMO.


15 posted on 05/20/2020 4:26:01 AM PDT by MortMan (Shouldn't "palindrome" read the same forward and backward?)
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To: dp0622

Racist how? Quote from the article.


16 posted on 05/20/2020 4:39:40 AM PDT by workerbee (==)
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To: dp0622

Takimag is infamous for having this person as a managing editor when it launched: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_B._Spencer


24 posted on 05/20/2020 6:50:29 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: dp0622

Racist? He mentioned the color of the young men because it was essential to the story.


30 posted on 05/20/2020 10:01:54 AM PDT by gogeo (It isn't just time to open America up again: It's time to be America again.)
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To: dp0622

Back when people had common sense and were not indoctrinated with PC they’d call a spade a spade. To do so today is considered racist.


33 posted on 05/20/2020 1:37:37 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Democrat politicians prefer death)
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