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I consider those to be political views. Thinking black people are inferior is a political view. Thinking fat people should be accountable of their own mistakes, and that healthcare should be taken off them, is a political view also. Not my political views, though.

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>Thinking black people are inferior is a political view.

I disagree. Thinking that trickle-down economics is a solution to poverty is a political view. Outright judgement of entire populations on illogical and untenable grounds is simply racism.

I have taken the mindset of rejecting these mindsets wholesale - I won't give credence to racists anymore. It is a garbage, untenable, unarguable viewpoint, and those that are within it have simply been failed by the system. It makes life much simpler :)

> Thinking black people are inferior is a political view.

No, that's not a political view. That's plain old racism. Politics has to do with money and power. Thinking black people are inferior is white supremacy. Don't conflate that reasonable positions taken in politics.

I don't think it makes sense to deny that it's both. One can hold abhorrent political views -- that doesn't make them not political. What were the Nazis if not a political movement based on white supremacy?

But the rest is accurate. You like going on those subreddits and play-acting like you're a racist or fat-shamer just for the fun of it.

Exactly. The same at night, I log into my World of Warcraft account, and play-act like I'm a night elf druid, because it's fun.

Playing night elf Druids in computer games doesn't hurt others. Your participation on the forums did. You like hurting people for fun? How do you sleep at night?

In some multiplayer games just playing them hurts other people up to the point where they experience something very similar to a mental breakdown, all because you're on their team and you're performing poorly.

It all comes down to the emotion management. My countrymen - and by extension me - have been called thieves and equated to animals countless times. My race has been blamed for all the evils in the world. Yet, I don't care - none of this has any potential to hurt me, it's just words on the internet and I'd rather follow the famous mantra of Tyler The Creator than pretend I'm being hurt somehow.

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