RE: I had a dream of hate, offensiveness, and the slippery slope of words losing meaning [This post contains many words. Reader discretion advised.]
The act of dehumanization seems to be the purpose of censorship. Freedom is the act of doing whatever you want to do, right or wrong. For every action is an equal and opposite reaction, or consequences. The opportunity that freedom allows is for one to be able to learn from the actions that have been taken after the consequences have presented themselves. The White race is a social construct devised by powers needing more and more control for selfish reasons.
Divide and conquer is a tool of enslavement. The knowledge is there for both Black and White to ditch these labels and come up with something new in these times. Those who continue to hold these values of hue are the pawns in the game of slavery. Those who choose not to learn will be rewarded with injustice or perpetuate injustice. This is the game that has been chosen our society.
Racism is really about the Black race in America being victimized and abused by non- Blacks. Any one of another ethnicity or nationality can come to this country and not be Black in order to be more successful here. They choose to embrace the lexicon of racial, bias intolerance and discrimination fully when it comes to the actual treatment of the Black race in America. They join in exploitation and neglect of the Black community. Racism is now an insult that everybody flings, at a whim, at people they don't like. Now, the gays are crying racism along with the immigrants and the so-called terrorists. Racism has become separate from its historical meaningThe people that use it without going into the history of the word and its direct relationship with the Black race are willfully ignorant. They are turning the tools of African chattel slavery into weapons of mass destruction.
Seek the true knowledge of history. Discard lies.
This I agree with.
This I don't.
This is wrong. Racism is about elevating or restricting ANY race. If one race is getting special treatment either positive or negative over another. That is racism.
Simply by saying racism is about Blacks that itself makes your statement racist. It is giving special treatment and rights to blacks.
If a person says "White people are X" that is racist. If they say "Black people are X" that is racist.
Another feature of racism is that it is a generalization. Generalizations are almost always FALSE. All it takes is a single case of a member in the generalized group not to fit the generalization for it to be false.
Your first statement I said I agreed with that I quoted. That is indeed the goal. We need to just deal with injustice when we see it regardless of skin color. If we emphasize skin color in the process and perhaps accompany it with a generalization then all we are doing is fueling racism.
If something is done wrong to someone. We should seek justice for THAT act. We shouldn't generalize and assume that people that had nothing to do with that event are somehow responsible.
I thought of another interesting example of that "Skin color is X" example of racism. I found interesting.
If a person says "Jews are X" that is racist. Yet it is important to remember that X can be both positive or negative. If X is something like "awesome" so it is Jews are Awesome then people usually won't call them out on it.
Yet it is still a generalization. It is highly probable there are some Jews that are not particularly awesome. Example: George Soros. So it is false.
However, if X was "bad" so the statement becomes "Jews are bad" then not only is it still racist. It is also often called anti-Semitic.
The key to racism is the generalization, and involves some form of special treatment.
For there to not be racism then our reaction to people should be equal regardless of skin color.