tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post745124123660932119..comments2023-06-15T09:13:45.467-04:00Comments on Liberty's Torch: The Retribalizers Part 2: It’s Not Just About RaceFrancis W. Porrettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05862584203772592282noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-86036262862580908612014-12-09T12:21:58.293-05:002014-12-09T12:21:58.293-05:00As Fred Reed says, Anonymous, stereotypes are unfa...As Fred Reed says, Anonymous, stereotypes are unfair only to the exceptions. The enemy likes to keep the focus on this or that example of pure innocence (never achievement, as the slobbering over Martin and Brown makes clear) and as far as possible from the issue of group characteristics. Individual people of merit live in ghetto wastelands but the presence of a certain critical mass of blacks in an area guarantees that the wasteland will develop and that, nevertheless, meritorious individuals will live behind bars and barricaded doors.<br /><br />The group characteristics that ensure the development of the wasteland will never be acknowledged but the bloodhounds will bay through the night in search of whitey's neglect and hate.Col. B. Bunnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09590364016079745156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-34413350934002827212014-12-09T10:11:12.669-05:002014-12-09T10:11:12.669-05:00Very interesting. I've been experiencing some...Very interesting. I've been experiencing something along these lines. Highly-simplified: When I was younger, I was a vocal anti-racist. As I grew older and more mature, I learned that "anti-racism" was pure BS, intended to blind us to the realities behind often-valid stereotypes. As time passed, I became even more jaded, and began to stereotype more liberally. I now have a few friends who I guess I would categorize as more liberal stereotypers than me. Which is fine, and I get, but deep down, I feel there is a need or an ability to still judge individuals on their own merits, as opposed to grouping EVERYONE based on visual characteristics. I often have to gently float this mindset...that everyone is different, and even if stereotypes exist for a good reason generally, they are only good generally, not exclusively.<br /><br />I sense that my view is looked at as somewhat-crazy, if admirable. And yet events in Ferguson and elsewhere have only worked against my argument in such settings. Emerging from tribalism, if possible at all, is a delicate matter, and not one that is guaranteed success, particularly if tribes continue to act as they tend to typically. And when we're talking about one tribe that typically keeps to itself peacefully, and another that likes to protest and sometimes loot and burn when criminals are treated like criminals, these are some pretty incompatible worldviews. I guess my advice is, stereotypes exist for a reason, don't lose your humanity, and keep the shotgun loaded and within arm's reach.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com