Really? I think that is a mathematical impossibility, since if we are not born racist, but have to become racist through learning, with or without a teacher....and then become non-racist, those that become non-racist (who had switched to begin with) would have to outnumber those who became racist in the first place. That is an impossibility.
I think I just said "I don't think that is the only way people become racist"....but yes, his saying that does give license for greater levels of racism, and people DO learn by example...or at least I have had teachers tell me so.
I see, if a person gives an opinion, there is a mechanism that automatically does not allow those that hear it to believe it . I'm so glad we have you around to clarify that opinions are always automatically rejected by everyone.
There is no point, you created a mathematical impossibility. If you want to show your work, go for it.
"Intelligent" people generally DO NOT BECOME RACIST. That again is backed through research, but that isn't the point. The point is people do learn to be racist.
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I always wonder why you open your "mouth", post utterly unbelievable things, admit that racism is a learned process....and then start backtracking with whiny comment about something being taken out of context.
JFC...indeed, we are not discussing whut BD said, this is you and I discussing whether racism is learned or inherent. You admit it is learned, and yet now you want to argue that opinions are not learned, cannot be transferred from one to another....as if opinions have some special characteristics that stop their being transferred.
You have not shown what I am supposedly not comprehending.
That is not an argument, that is an ad hom. The point still is, racism is learned.
That is whut the thread is about, but I was speaking to the broader point, and you know it.
Nope, my kiwi resident, you want to try to play down the effect of influence. He IS an influential element, or perhaps being on the other side of the Earth shielded you from what has happened in the US of A.
Again, somehow you are claiming that humans automatically are not influenced by rhetoric.
I think I'm not the one requiring "help". I think a "teacher", like yourself is fully aware of how authority figures influence.
Opinion, rhetoric...are, contain, concepts. To argue they cannot influence, as you just did, is a really strange thing for a teacher like yourself to state as fact.
Again with the false premise, the changing of the argument. The argument is can he cause an increase in racism, ie racist expression. Clearly, he can.
After all of our exchanges, trust me, yer way down on the list of folks I would ever ask for help