It's Kamala!

[Dill]

(08-24-2020, 04:58 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Quite the dodge, and we all know why. 

I just gave you one.

Of course not, which is why I gave you an example.  Is Colin Kaepernick black?

I appreciate your proving my point for me.  Kudos.

Hmmm.  I've been reading your posts in good faith and responding to them with discussion and explanation. E.g., without condemning things you claimed, I've taken the time to explain how I am use terms like "racism" and "leftism" with reference to their history. I've asked you for similar explanations of your position, so far without success.  If I claimed you "dodged" something I would quote the dodge and explain why it was a dodge. I wouldn't just point and claim and then point again. Why wouldn't THAT be dodging?

So I don't think "we all" see a dodge and "know why." Or at least we don't see me dodging.

You say you gave me an example of "the left" using the one drop rule. But I don't see any such example. You just asked if Obama was "black." If I answer "yes," that doesn't prove that I or Obama or anyone else has adopted the one-drop rule, designed to base legal exclusion on a biological fiction. Perhaps you misunderstand what the one-drop rule is and how it works? You are not familiar with its legal history and application? Could be you are putting your on gloss on the term, so it fits for you but no one else. An explanation of what you mean by the one-drop rule, and why that applies to ME calling Obama "Black," could clarify or rule out that possibility.

Same answer for Colin Kaepernick. Calling people with African features who self-identify as black "black" is just not proof that "the left," or anyone assents to such identification, is applying a biological designation toward legal discrimination.  If your examples stood, then recognizing that any individual belongs to any any "race" would be an application of the one-drop rule, even in places where the rule never existed and people have no knowledge of it.

Still a chance for dialogue here. You invoked "the dodge" as a bad practice. So explain why recognizing Obama or Kaepernick as "Black" is necessarily a deployment of the one-drop rule. Are you saying that recognition of race in ANY capacity or any purpose = a one-drop rule devised for racial control? If that were the case, why was it ever necessary to elaborate a one drop rule if it were already universal? Can you answer with, not a question or an accusation, but an explanation?

Also, show how a one-drop rule in Brazil which "works the other way" proves your point that "leftists" use the same rule as the Klan in the US.