06-08-2018, 07:10 PM
(06-08-2018, 03:23 PM)fredtoast Wrote: So you quote a post where I condemn the extremist quote from the New York Times and then accuse me of dismissing it?
How is that even possible?
There is nothing inconsistent with my argument. I am opposed to extremist comments about how all white people are racist and at the same time I am opposed to comments about how all racism ended decades ago and only exists in history and folklore. Those are not mutually exclusive positions.
Newsflash Fred, this is not all about you. A man wrote an opinion piece in the NYT that he's going to teach his children that you can't be friends with white people. Was there a reaction to it even remotely similar to the reaction that would be caused if a white author made the same statements about teaching his children that you can't be friends with black people? Would a person who wrote that they hated the first responders and felt no sympathy for their deaths be lauded by the left, a virtual darling of the left, the way Coates has, if he was white?
Take of the egocentric goggles for a second and join the rest of us, we're having quite a nice discussion about what we agree, and disagree, with in this article.
