Racist is literally a meaningless term

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[–]UncleWillard56 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

True that. I wonder if that has more to do with a transition in Western society away from its religious roots. We are moving away from religion and more to rationality as a unifying principle. Don't get me wrong, I think it took religion to raise the bar on humanity and get us to this point and without it, I'm not sure we would have survived without that unifying principle. But now that we're transitioning, the death throes are causing panic. Identity politics is just a symptom of that, and by backing people into a corner and asking them to ignore their religion, which is often the foundation for all their beliefs, is bound to cause blowback.

[–]Vulptex 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

What's ironic is how Christianity protested all the religious crap Judaism had accumulated, and Jesus hated how the Pharisees blindly followed dogma and didn't have open minds or use their brains. Paul was a natural debator. Lifting the forgeries away it turns out they had radical egalitarian beliefs that put us to shame, a whole 2000 years ago. That's why gentile ministry was such a big deal to them, because most Jews only cared about other Jews. But now it's been turned into a foolish religion itself, where you're not allowed to question the official doctrine or you get labeled as a heretic.

[–]UncleWillard56 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Same for Martin Luther and the Catholic Church. That kind of power just naturally corrupts people.