Generalizing people based on the criteria of race, religion, or lifestyle IS morally wrong.
No, actually, OVERgeneralizing is a logical mistake that may or may not be morally wrong, depending. Then there is the illogic of comparing race, which is natural, to religion and lifestyle, which are chosen behaviors, childhood training aside.
Fellow Free-Market Capitalist Sean Smith,
I meant nothing by my use of "comrade." Just thought it was a fun word. I hope you didn't think that I was the one generalizing about skin-heads. Someone else said, "I have yet to meet a Skinhead," etc. I only used it as a synonym for white supremacist, and I've met very few of those. Guess I'll have to dig out my Vandals CD, just to remember another kind of skinhead. While we're on the topic we could get real persnickety about Nazism, which was a fascist political party. A NAZI is not simply a racist or totalitarian, even though Nazism included such thinking.
You say you don't know what I'm talking about, so I will try to explain. The groups I claimed to despise in my earlier post were used merely for the sake of example, to show that your justification for ad hominen attacks on white sup's is not tenable. For example, while I am also tempted to hate white sup's, I react even more viscerally to homosexuality, as well as being morally opposed to it. I don't suppose I've ever hated them, I just get sick to my stomach. Nonetheless, it would be wrong for me to bash homosexuals gratuitously by calling them faggots. I try not to say things like "That's gay" if I don't like something. At the same time, I don't use the euphemism "gay," I use the proper word, "homosexual," which homosexuals don't seem to like.
While you are arrogantly dismissing racist ideas, keep in mind that white sup's have more evidence for racial superiority than a lot of us have for other beliefs. Consider the problems routinely decried by Black-American leaders and those of other minorities. These would include lower levels of wealth and education and higher levels of criminal activity. Of course, these are the result of past discrimination and other reasons. To the white supremacist, these are the fault of racial inferiority. Two different sides of the same coin.
After all, how did white supremacy begin other than white westerners looking around at the comparitive backwardness of thier neighbors, technologically, politically and morally? The mistake is to attribute that to race rather than other factors. No different than the gun-banner who looks around at all of the senseless violence in the world and blames the wrong factor. Should we dismiss them and call them names, too? I thought this was a polite society.
