Thursday, May 15, 2008

Racism 101

_RYU0121
I see someone spent 28 minutes on this blog in the last couple of days studying up on everything I have written about racism. Intwisting. There's also a major investment in 'doom and gloom'. I wonder, did you find what you are looking for? Did you find some dirt, because I know there is someone who is definitely digging, and I know why they feel they have to do this. How it works is when you can't find anything in the real world, you start digging in someone's own personal archives, and that becomes your little court case. Hey, good luck with that.

I do have a question though. What do you call someone who accuses someone else of racism or discrimination (and they honestly believe their accusations are true) except they happen to be wrong? I'm thinking it's self-righteous arrogance, or purism or something. I'm not sure exactly what it is but I do know it disgusts me. It is actually worse than racism itself, because it is based once again on the belief that your standards (the way you treat and appraise people) is better, and thus the object of your disdain, is evaluated prejudicially. That is the point. This is very interesting, because it amounts to intellectual elitism. It might sound nice, a nice thing to be accused of. Think so? Well intellectual elitism begets Nazism, and it's based on the idea that you are - through your thinking, philosophy, whatever, you're essentially 'us', and they (who you don't agree with or can't understand) are 'them'. It is all based on the same ego-threatened idiocy that racism is based on. Except that it's based entirely on a fictionalised construct, a fantasy, that you the observer, the judge, is somehow more intellectually acceptable.

Frankly, it sickens me.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Ja Nick
There's a lot of sick people out there - think it sounds like jealousy - someone in yr work environment should not be ruled out.
No need to reply to this - dont want u to stick yr neck out!