Thursday, January 03, 2008

Justified Racism

I recently chatted with someone very concerned about immigration. But he didn't really have anything against immigrants - he was married to one! though one from one of those light-skinned places - but he was very worried about the *bad* immigrants. We had to find away to get rid of the *bad* ones. *Bad* seemed to be some combination of crime/terrorism. It wasn't well-specified, and didn't really have any factual basis. Basically people don't like the other, are enlightened enough to realize that simply being racist is probably not so nice, so they convince themselves that there are Mexican Islamo-terrorists everywhere. In other words, their fear and hostility is completely justified in their minds so they aren't racists.