I have an opinion, yes, and I think it is more accurate than your own. You have an opinion and you think it is more accurate than mine. That's fine, and that's why we're here discussing.
Let me reiterate. You said that there are other reasons besides a perceived lack of intelligence. I agree, but there is also a perceived lack of intelligence.
If you want to rely on your own personal anecdotes to dismiss this, that's cool, but I am not suggesting anything about you personally.
Cool, I don't think it's sizable either, this is a subset of a subset.
I understand there is nuance to racism and the definition has evolved and that context matters. I understand it's not all so cut and dry when dealing with these things, and especially when you add friends to the mix. That still doesn't negate the fact that treating people differently because the color of their skin is technically racist, and it doesn't always need to be negative.. And of course what may look like someone treating someone differently because of their skin color may be actually them judging their socio economic status or whatever, I'm sure that happens too. But when you generalize like, this guy probably can't swim because he's black, it is a form of prejudice even if the people generalizing love you.
You think that your opinion is more accurate than mine based on what?
Having countless conversations with white liberals as a black guy? Because that's what I'm basing my opinion on. All opinions aren't created equal.
And I'm not saying that "because I"m black, I'm right, and you can't have an opinion on this". But, you have to put yourself in my shoes for a second, and see how ridiculous this looks to a person like me.
I'm on a board full of mostly white guys constantly offering up their opinions and "knowledge" on "the black community" and it's problems, whilst never having stepped foot/lived in one of these communities, or having had an actual conversation about race with a black person face to face..and yet...somehow they know better than a person that has actually experienced/lived this.
I mean, your belief that liberals think blacks are not intelligent is based on what exactly? I think that is a pretty damn serious charge to level against someone--I don't even think that of nothing but the most racist of the right--the side where if there are racists, that's where they are.
It is bizarre to me, because I would never pretend to know about the problems on a native American reservation, or the problems and social dynamics in a rural white town in Arkansas---but, somehow, everyone else are experts on 'the black community'..
But I digress...when you use words like "coddle", you expose your obvious bias. That is a typical right wing talking point about liberal policies in regards to social welfare.
It is why so many minorities DON'T vote Republican. That doesn't mean the Democrats are the perfect party for minorities, they aren't. But they at least acknowledge some simple truths that the right refuse to. There is a refusal by many on the right to acknowledge that blacks have different barriers to success than whites. You believe that everyone can just "pull themselves up by their bootstraps and make it", and that we all have the same starting point, and that is not true for all groups of people. There are communities at a disadvantage, that need help. And when a liberal or minority says this, they are "playing the victim role"
Helping a person in need is not 'coddling'.
Can some white liberals go overboard? Yeah, sure. But are they doing it because they think that we're too stupid to do it for ourselves? No. It is you, and others that brought up this argument about competence and intelligence. And it is wrong. Liberals acknowledge that there are systemic barriers that hold back certain groups of people--that doesn't mean they individually lack the ability (mentally) to help themselves.
I do appreciate your civility here, and I mean no offense when I say this, but your opinion on race is just flat out dumb, man. If you understand that there is context and nuance, then what you typed after that is horse shit. Your definition and usage of the word 'racist' is pointless, and needlessly divisive.
We're not 2 linguistic professors discussing all of the possible applications of the usage of a word. We're talking about how the word is actually used by 2 normal people talking in a normal conversation. And the word 'racist' is not used in the way that you're trying to apply it. At least not in a way that makes sense.
In your usage of the word, a white girl that is into black guys because she likes big dicks and muscles, it is accurate to call her 'racist'. Saying a Korean is good at math because their parents usually force them to drill math from a young age is racist? This is stupid. "Racist' is about discrimination, causing pain, thinking that someone is beneath you. "Treating someone different" because of their race, regardless of how you treat them, is a stupid way to classify the word 'racist'. It is ignoring that there ARE physical and cultural differences between us. It's like when people say "I don't see color". This is wrong. We all see color, and there is nothing wrong with that. How you act on it is what makes you right or wrong. I'm very well aware of my white friends whiteness, that doesn't make me a racist.
Someone seeing me as black, and knowing that we might have some cultural and physical differences doesn't make them a racist.
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