Subconcious Racism Or Valid Precaution?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45818176

[Backdrifter]

"We only have the video evidence to go on. We can't make ANY assumptions, despite this happening in a region with a history of intolerance and murder of blacks, in a country where being black in a coffee shop gets you arrested." Hours later and the usual suspects continue to knot themselves into pretzels to justify obvious racism. It's completely nauseating as are they. We even have naomi24 repeatedly saying she'd do the same; report or follow a black man with two white children, simply because of the different skin colours. But of course, it's to ensure the safety of the children, not because of ingrained racism, which is what it would be; worrying that white children might be unsafe because they are with a black man. That is racism regardless of any amount of grimy, slimy wriggling. The utter shamelessness of it. Anyone who is happy to publicly say, more than once, that they would do the same is an obnoxious, mean-spirited unapologetic bigot; to then declare it's due to "caring" drags them further into into their own sewage.

[ludwig]

// Now if you can spin that as something other than racist behaviour, then I cannot, and we must agree to differ. //

No spinning required.
I'm not saying she's isn't racist. I'm saying it's not possible to conclude she is or isn't on the basis of what happened. The only thing you can say is that she's either a concerned citizen or an interfering busybody, depending on your point of view. Her racism or lack of it is impossible to judge.

You can make assumptions of course, but only based on your own prejudices.

Sorry to insert a bit of factual correctness into this orgy of moral outrage, but there you go. As you say, we must agree to differ.

[Backdrifter]

In this thread: https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1627163.html - a professor was accused of racism due to his focus on black studies and a paper he wrote on whiteness, which discussed the white mindset that once gave us slavery and the belief that whites are superior, and that blacks are not to be trusted and were at the level of animals (though of course some here might demand video evidence of that). The paper said this mindset is still there, manifesting in other ways. This thread shows he is right.

[naomi24]

Backdrifter is clearly determined to find racism wherever he goes. Such a charmer. ;o)

[andy-hughes]

Backdrifter - // We even have naomi24 repeatedly saying she'd do the same; report or follow a black man with two white children, simply because of the different skin colours. //

Naomi has not said that.

She has referred to a circumstance where, if she felt children were at risk, she may approach the adult to ask questions, but nowhere has she said or implied, that she would act out of racist motivation.

That is a slur on her character, and I think you owe her an apology.

[anotheoldgit]

I think that ludwig's post of
18:39 Thu 11th Oct 2018, sums matters up perfectly, no one on here has enough evidence whatsoever which proves that this woman is a racist or even that she is not.

[-Talbot-]

Hence why I typed out ...'a blatant racist action' AOG.