June 14, 2005

A quick thought
Elendur

The way I think of racism--which may or may not be the accepted definition--is when you are anti-person-of-a-specific-race BECAUSE (I'd really rather italicize, but as you know I can't) they are of that race. For instance, a while back a great number of people were anti-blacks or African-Americans because they were black. This is, of course, inexcusable. Right now, however, a lot of people are anti-French, not because they think being French is a bad thing, but because they think the French as a body have made some wrong decisions. But if they think this or that Frenchman makes right decisions, they are not against this or that particular Frenchman, whereas people used to (and some, of course, still do) hate a black person simply because he was black. Lets hope anti-French sentiment doesn't turn into something like that.

-Elendur