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You can always find a crypto-racist by how they judge whole groups of people!

And for those who've been actually abused (or know others whom have) to act as tho ALL persons of a group of MAPS Must Also Be sick, etc. is really NO DIFFERENT from racism. Because the basic insight about racism is that one is JUDGING WHOLE GROUPS based on one feeling about an experience or set of experiences with Blacks (or other colors of folks).

Only, of course, such masses are meta-dovetailing their negative experience with the normative pressures to Conform pushed by formal Society (forcing all men/boys to suppress their humanity in order to become cannon fodder for reasons of warcraft). That is, the Frames of References Arrayed (purposefully) around them are not benign.

So anyway, i would think this would be an interesting reaction to throw out there! Next time you're dealing with such antis.

Not sure i'm adequately articulating this, so it's a process. Perhaps YOU can assist me in better saying this?

I agree with the argument, in this sense: that’s how prejudice works. You take an experience (whether told, lived, imitated, etc.) and, based on that, you make a generalized judgment. Prejudice in itself is not necessarily a bad thing; it can be protective. Not going into a dark alley full of drug addicts is a prejudice, but it can also save lives.

It becomes negative when it is used to support discriminatory actions or attitudes.

When this prejudice is rationalized, we can speak of “racist” phenomena, which is when people justify and reinforce their own prejudice by talking about sexual orientation, culture, skin color, and essentially blaming the victims of prejudice for being what they are assumed to be.

Or at least, that’s my view on the matter.