Well, you can make a distinction between racialist and racist thinking, though I happen to think that racialists haven’t thought things through entirely, otherwise they’d drop race-thinking posthaste.””””
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Ok, so the term “African-American” and “Hispanic” etc.. is racist/racialist thinking? That is EXACTLY what John Wayne said. The problem with your argument is that these groups define themselves as “identity groups”, as do Muslims. Because these groups do not seem to share your viewpoint that they dont exist or should NOT exist, it would bring into question why do ‘blacks’largely refer to people of African decent as African-American, and not just American.

Which would also bring up the point that it is people of African decent (and Latino, Asian etc..) who have choosen a seperate ‘racialist’ identity group, IE: that they are not of “European” ancestory… or do not/will not/can not in large statistical numbers identify with being the “same” as people of european ancestory, or blacks with hispanic, orhispanics with asian, etc… ancestory, on average. That is why they have defined racialist groupings. So even though you choose to be “politicaly correct” in choosing to ignore ‘racialist’ tendancies, the very nature of Diversity promotes these same racial identies within the lager social structure of Western Euopean decendent clutures…does it not?

One could argue that it is therefore inherently “racist” to ingnore “race” as it subverts the notion of “diversity”. Could you not? Im asking you of course….

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If the Bell Curve is a racist book, but has a scientific basis to it, then discussing racist concepts would be purely accademic, would it not?

How about discussing the differences between Males and Females again that would be “sexist” because your studing the differences between the sexes….

Political Correctness is not scientific.

I think this is the first time Ive actually seen someone use a Dictionary soely to define what appears to be a political viewpoint…It looks like you are forcing a political argument to shut down any opposition to your belief system about race perceptions. Hence my reference to George Orwell.

Dictionary aside, that ‘definition’ of race is a limitation of thought within a group of people with a particular political, as there are a ton of books on Anthroplogy that dissuss race as in defining racial characteristics. All you are doing is not allowing disscussion of them. The supreme court just made a ruling that racial discrimination was allowed under certain circumstances, so I would think at the least, the definition of race and racism is fluid…

The concept that humans dont differentiate among ethnicity is absurd. Your making a blanket political statement to suit your very narrow worldview, as Muslim Immigration is becomming a HOT topic in Italy, France, Briton, and of course, scandinavia and the Netherlands.

So are you only allowing people who have a liberal viewpoint to share, and conform to Political Correctness to comment on your message board? That sounds more like pre-school, not the real world, to me…

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“The belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, esp. so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races.”

Your post expressed exactly such beliefs, and we will not tolerate them on this blog. This blog encourages lively discussion, but we reseve the right to set limits on what speech we consider appropriate as per our comments policy. If you feel the need to express ideas not welcome on this blog you are free to start your own blog – doing so is free.

What exactly is the scientific standard for determining ‘racism’? Alot of people would like to know…=)

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Anyone interested in the historical brother’s Grimm, shoudl read about Grimm’s Law.

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I would also trace the rise of the links between language and the German folk-nation back even earlier, to Herder.