And she's supposed to be the "dim" one?"Your friends with a white supremacist?!
Here is the thing about this story: you are effectively criticizing a rational human being for reacting to life experiences. It never ceases to amaze me how much a liberal spin can make idiots resist their natural urge to prejudge and form initial reactions. It's like trying to put your hand in every fire to confirm you're getting burned, rather than learning from your first mistake and avoiding the fire until you've got evidence it won't burn you. It just amazes me that people actually think the "right" thing to do is to ignore all outward evidence of a person's culture, upbringing, and personal beliefs and put yourself at risk for the sake of avoiding normal prejudgment.
I'm not defending the Klan. What started as a simple fraternity for angry Southerners to air their grievances and find solidarity in a time when you couldn't trust anyone has evolved into the most backward, misguided, and otherwise worthless organization that can still grab headlines. The Klan's message, however, is absolutely 100% just as dumb as the converse liberal agenda to end prejudice and give everyone a chance.
Racism is obviously an extreme and irrational form of prejudgment (popularly maligned as "prejudice") based on skin color, but its foundation isn't untestable. "Race" as we construct is more of a cultural term crossed with simple visual appearance, but the fundamental idea that there are some groups of people (identified by culture or geographical location more than simple "white, black, red, brown" race distinctions) would be genetically superior to other groups is not ridiculous.
Likewise, the idea that cultures are inherently equal has the same liberal feel-good spin. Ethnocentrism is a natural human reaction that's been painted as this terrible, evil concept. If you were to identify the measuring points for the best culture (such as life expectancy, amount of leisure time, volume of art/expression, advancement of language, adaptability, versatility, and defendability), you could easily rank each culture and determine which is best. If one greatest culture were thereby established, why shouldn't it advance its agenda?
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