Chockstone Forum

      Sponsored By
      ROCK
   HARDWARE

Chockstone Photography

Australian Landscape Prints

Chockstone Forum - General Discussion

General Climbing Discussion

Topic Date User

OT: Human Rights Framework 3-May-2010 At 12:58:21 PM Hendo

Message

Ok clearly we have apply the word racism to different things.

On 3/05/2010 Mr Milk wrote:
>Throughout this entire pointless diatribe you continually confuse racism
>with racial prejudice.

I don't quite understand this. Do you mean racism and racial prejudice are mutually exclusive? If so that seems a very odd way of using those words and different to what I would expect many to think.

>Your argument keeps returning to this farcical definitional
>pedantry.

Well my point is that things aren't black and white. How do you define your sharp demarcation between racial prejudice and non-racial prejudice? Because I see there is blurriness I don't think you can just say something is racist and then that implicitly implies it is bad without any justification.

>Wishing to suppress the cultural freedom of others as you advocate is
>racial prejudice.

What if there are non aboriginal people living on a sensitive environmental area eating endangered plants/animals and a law is passed to say nobody can go there and eat various things except traditional owners and maybe those with special government permission because the area needs to be protected . In removing that person from their home does that not count as some form of suppression of their culture? I'm not so sure there isn't blurring between racial differentiation and racial prejudice.