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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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On 02/06/2025 12:30, Borax Man wrote:
> On 2025-05-31, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>> On Sat, 31 May 2025 09:27:30 -0000 (UTC), Borax Man wrote:
>>
>>> On 2025-05-30, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, 30 May 2025 22:56:15 -0000 (UTC), Borax Man wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> When I encounter an avid "anti-racist" or "anti-bigot", they've often
>>>>> been willing, if you scratch just a little, to be racist and
>>>>> exclusionary.
>>>>
>>>> So, presumably, you cannot count yourself as anti-racist or anti-bigot,
>>>> without falling foul of your own rule.
>>>
>>> I don't claim to be anti-racist or anti-bigot.
>>
>> Yet you label others as “racist” and “exclusionary” ...
> 
> I label people based on how they act and what they do.
> 
Exactly.

It is one thing to say notice that someone from Kenya has lungs to die 
for having lived at altitude all his life, and another thing to consider 
him inferior simply because he happens to be black.

When you see the race, not the person, that;s racism. And it's as 
prevalent - if not more so - amongst 'people of colour'



-- 
“The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the 
urge to rule it.”
– H. L. Mencken