Now, now. Let's all play nice.
To that end, here's my response, from earlier, to a query;
Agritum wrote:But yes, right wingers:
What's racism for you? Is it something bad? Natural? Can racialist outlooks and an emphasis on ethnical homogeneity ease the task of realizing an orderly, hierarchical society, or do they breed the polarization and inter and intra-class hatred that left sometimes love to capitalize on? Is racism moral accordin to your values? Or not? And why?
I figured I'd answer this from my own angle, since the thread is moving fast enough that I'm losing track, even while I post.
People are different from each other, and have intrinsic dignity as a result of their humanity.
People are not interchangeable, as individual traits and cultural foundations for thought- and behaviour-patterns are real.
Peoples (as collectives) are different from each other, as any family is from any other family, writ large. This is not bad. It just is.
It is normal and reasonable to consider the interests of your family ahead of someone else's family.
It is not carte blanche to be a horrendous prick as a consequence, although many seem to miss this point.
Awareness of the correlation between race and culture, broadly (let's not split hairs about race's existence or otherwise here. Leave that conversation for another time), its a fairly easy assertion that ethno-culturally homogenous societies have less (not none, less) ambient internal tensions than heterogenous ones, and there are a whole fistful of statistics one could dig up for this (alas, not now, but they can be found online without too much effort, if one is not typing from a phone. I recommend digging on the point, actually, though accept my slightly-poor-form to not follow up by providing a source or two myself. Time is not my friend herein).
Heirarchies are normal, and not intrinsically bad. People are not the same, pretending they are is counter-factual. That DOES NOT give one the right to treat others like garbage, but a properly structured society should allow the potential for people to become individually upwardly mobile, and not try to pretend everyone is a freely-interchangeable amorphous mass of consumerism, able to be swapped between cultures and societies as if no defining characteristics, experiences or cultural/ideological heritages were in play. That, oddly enough, has been the ironic backblast of a culturally-leftist blurring of national lines. Workers suffer most, as they try to compete with a worker from a culture that is ok with working for $2 an hour.
Part of my take. Hope it's useful.
My take, anyway.
