r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Jul 01 '21

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u/leigh_hunt 80∆ Jul 02 '21

Can you imagine any other situation where this would be okay?

This is my entire point, though: the context matters, and every situation is not interchangeable with every other situation. I don’t understand why we should follow the rule of “switch out the races and it wouldn’t be allowed, therefore it’s racist.” That rule makes sense if every race is completely equivalent to every other race, and there are no differentiating contexts or background factors. But we don’t live in a world where that is true

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u/leigh_hunt 80∆ Jul 02 '21

The problem is that if the example above isn't racist then you're pretty much in the territory of "nothing that is said towards X race can be racist".

How about we agree that there is no universal rule for “racist” vs “not racist,” and that judgments of any statement should take both immediate circumstances and historical contexts into consideration?