{"id":8344,"date":"2013-11-21T05:54:57","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T05:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/11\/21\/if-im-a-racist-then-you-are-a-tribalist\/"},"modified":"2013-11-21T05:54:57","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T05:54:57","slug":"if-im-a-racist-then-you-are-a-tribalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/11\/21\/if-im-a-racist-then-you-are-a-tribalist\/","title":{"rendered":"If I’m a Racist, then You are a Tribalist!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Racist<\/a>Suppose you present careful arguments against Obama's policies and ideas, foreign or domestic or both.  Some black is sure to jump up and shout, "Racist!  You hate him because he's black!"  Oprah Winfrey is the latest example.  There is no point in arguing with such an idiot, argument being fruitful only with those who inhabit the plane of reason; but you must respond.  I suggest "If I'm a racist, then you are a tribalist." <\/span><\/p>\n

If I oppose Obama's policies because he is black,then you support them because he is black.  If I'm a racist, then you are a tribalist!  If his being black is no reason to oppose his policies, then his being black is no reason to support them either.  If racism is bad, then so is your knee-jerk tribalism.<\/span><\/p>\n

One of the sad facts about blacks is that many if not most  of them cannot seem to transcend their tribal identification.  They identify, not as human beings or as rational animals or as Americans, but as blacks.  That tribal identification  so dominates their consciousness that even the calmest and most polite arguments against Obama's ideas cannot be comprehended except as personal attacks on their man who is, first and foremost, a black man, even though he is half-white.  That tribal identification was also at play in the O. J. Simpson trial.  The prosecution presented a mountain of evidence of his guilt and yet the black dominated jury acquitted him of double homicide.  <\/span><\/p>\n

My advice to blacks:  if you want to be judged by "the content of your character and not the color of your skin," to adapt the words of Martin Luther King, Jr., then drop the tribal identification.  if you want to be treated as individuals<\/em>, then stop identifying as members of a racial group<\/em>. Why is your race so important to you?  Are you perhaps raaacists<\/em>?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Suppose you present careful arguments against Obama's policies and ideas, foreign or domestic or both.  Some black is sure to jump up and shout, "Racist!  You hate him because he's black!"  Oprah Winfrey is the latest example.  There is no point in arguing with such an idiot, argument being fruitful only with those who inhabit … Continue reading “If I’m a Racist, then You are a Tribalist!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}