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Subject: Re: New, Racist owned micro distillery!
From: apetail
Posted: Wed Aug 4. 2010, 23:03 UTC
Followup to: "New, Racist owned micro distillery! "  by vodkatonics_all_around  (Wed Aug 4. 2010, 20:59 UTC)
> Mac Donald distilleries will be soon opening it's doors in Mukilteo, 
> Washington creating Gin, Vodka and some other sorts of beverages. For 
> a period of time I was involved with this company and I had come to 
> discover that the founder and sort of patriarch of the company isn't 
> a fan of "coloreds." On numerous occasions, Mr. Mac Donald would use 
> that term among other racial slurs when referring to migratory 
> workers and african Americans. I could only put up with this for so 
> long seeing how my wife is a "colored." So if you like that kind of 
> mentality, and feel the need to support people like that, by all 
> means buy and serve this Nazi juice. 

Only not a fan? How do these racial believes of mr. work out in practice? 
Important is the idea that racism and racism can be two different things. 

In my opinion there exists something as the right to be racist which must be 
weight together with and against other rights and duties. Depending on 
circumstances I believe it should be well accepted for people to be racist. 

Racism is also in pure technical terms a very reasonable and natural believe 
system. Even simple lifeforms like plants show signs of racism. It is only our 
western society who has the hypocritical view that racism is unwelcome. 
However, many aspects (flaws) of western society can be expressed in terms of 
racism. For instance "the ability for 5% of the world population to spend 25% 
of the total energy resources" is not well earned by those people but instead 
a privilege for those who happen to belong to the right country. 

What is and what is not defined as racism depends on the way we perceive the 
world. Since we wish to be good ourselves and since we define racism as bad we 
define racism in such a way that it does not involve ourselves. If only you 
would change one of these two things, either looking at ourselves as bad 
people or at racism as a good thing, then it becomes clear that we are all 
showing characteristic signs of racism. The type of racism used in common 
language only refers to the type features of racism which are stigmatized. 
This makes the term racism ambiguous allowing it to be used in fallacious 
argumentation. One form of racism could be put equal to a stronger form of 
racism. Nazism right? 


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