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And how am I the biggot when I'm talking cultural tolerance?
"Anyone who was ever racist or owned slaves is wrong and bad."
"Well cultural milieus need to be taken into account. You can't blame people for doing what they're taught because you do it too."
"No. They're wrong. I'm the pinnicle of cultural enlightenment. No one will look back 200 years from now and call me a savage."
"What?"
"Slavery and racism is wrong. They should have been able to transcend their mores and see that I'm right."
"Anachronistic ethnocentricity is myopic and still ethnocentrism. Just as you were taught to say it's wrong, they were taught to say it's alright. Neither of you is more right than the other."
"You're a fucking racist!"
"What?"
"You're defending racists. That makes you one of them."
"Look. You think the enslavement and slaughter of animals is wrong right?"
"Yes."
"So what on earth were you thinking when you were younger and eating animals?"
"I didn't think about it cause it was just what people did."
"Right. And consider yourself lucky that you analyze your life enough to realize that. Most people don't. And all I'm saying is that when you judge people for adhereing to their solcialization no matter what their culture you become the fascist."
The conversation ended there because he was knocked unconsious when he fell from his high horse.
"Anyone who was ever racist or owned slaves is wrong and bad."
"Well cultural milieus need to be taken into account. You can't blame people for doing what they're taught because you do it too."
"No. They're wrong. I'm the pinnicle of cultural enlightenment. No one will look back 200 years from now and call me a savage."
"What?"
"Slavery and racism is wrong. They should have been able to transcend their mores and see that I'm right."
"Anachronistic ethnocentricity is myopic and still ethnocentrism. Just as you were taught to say it's wrong, they were taught to say it's alright. Neither of you is more right than the other."
"You're a fucking racist!"
"What?"
"You're defending racists. That makes you one of them."
"Look. You think the enslavement and slaughter of animals is wrong right?"
"Yes."
"So what on earth were you thinking when you were younger and eating animals?"
"I didn't think about it cause it was just what people did."
"Right. And consider yourself lucky that you analyze your life enough to realize that. Most people don't. And all I'm saying is that when you judge people for adhereing to their solcialization no matter what their culture you become the fascist."
The conversation ended there because he was knocked unconsious when he fell from his high horse.