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Call me ignorant but I always thought you couldn't be racist against your own race. If you can than I am indeed racist against whites even though I am one. I have a fear of the whites that commit crimes like murder, rape, robbery, etc. Actually I fear the bad apples of every single race. Guess thats because I don't rob people, rape, or murder.
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Which is why I added bigot to the conversation. There is a difference between having a fear of something and wanting to act upon that fear, if that action is unfocused and taken to the extreme. You have indicated the latter in your post. Being afraid of something without acting is upon it is paranoia if you have no specific reason for that fear or simply being insecure.
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Actually I don't consider myself racist in the first place because I don't dislike or discriminate against any single race. I dislike the bad apples of every race. Thats why I require people to earn my trust. When I see a muslim walking on the street I don't necessarlily hate them. Instead I wonder if he is peaceful or a suicide bomber. And I have every right to wonder that with what is going on in the world.
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Noone who is racist considers themselves racist. Look I do not know whether you actually are or not, all I can go by is some of your comments on this board. I dislike bad apples as well as you do, but I do not hold an entire group of people respnsible for those bad apples like you seem to. What else can it be when you want to restrict people comming ot the US simply because of those bad apples. Yes you do have every right to eonder what is going on, no one has claimed you do not. You even have a right to wonder if that muslim you are walking past is a suicide bomber or not. What I believe you do not have a right to do is to hold all the people of the region that muslim comes from accountable for his or her actions, and when you claim you want to keep them out of the US because one of them might be a suicide bomber that is what you are doing. That and only that was why I termed your post racist.
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How can one identify a man like Atta? He didn't make threats. He supposedly came here to educate himself. He did nothing suspicious except learn to fly which would have made me suspicious in the first place. Someone in my position would have been suspicious from the start because I didn't trust him and would have wondered if he was peaceful or radical. Someone in yours would have remained status quo and said "we should have done something" after the 2000+ people already died. Real smart eh?
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I am not saying we will always be able to identify people like Atta or the others. There are no guarantees given to yu the day you are born or any subsequent day. All we can do is our best to find them and stop them before they can act. Lets assume your were suspicious of him from the start, he was here legally and as far as I know he violated no laws of the US. We are all a little more suspitious than we were before 911, that is not what we are talking about and not what you advocated int he post I initially responded to. There is nothing wrong with being more vigilant, but there is something wrong about painting an entire group with a broad stroke if you have no evidence that they are guilty. I am not saying we should not be more careful, what I am saying is to prevent muslims from entering the US simply beause they are muslims and because Atta was a muslim is wrong.
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Sorry just because I'm weary or suspicious of a person doesn't make me racist. It makes me aware that some things are not as they seem.
I think the term racism has transitioned into much more than it actually is.
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No it doesn't, but how you proposed to respond to that suspition was in my view.