Checkmate: How To Respond When Your Favorite Leftist Claims America Is Racist
by PF Whalen August 6, 2022
When attempting to rank or evaluate something or someone, context is everything. For instance, if we want to proclaim that a professional baseball player is an exceptional first baseman, we must first establish context. Are we comparing that player only to other first baseman playing today, in which case the bar is lower than it might otherwise be? Or are we comparing him to every first baseman who has ever played the game, in which case the great Lou Gehrig is indisputably the gold standard?
Context is critical.
So too does context affect one’s effort in trying to establish the qualifications of a country. Is France cold? Compared to Thailand, France is very cold. Compared to Iceland? Not so much.
Therefore, when the question of whether America is a ‘racist’ country comes up – and this debate comes up far too often, by the way – the most prudent approach is to compare her to other countries. Can we find examples of racist people or racist groups in America? Of course, we can. Then again, we can find examples of racism in Slovenia and Slovakia, as well as in Belarus and Belgium. Racism is widespread, unfortunately.
But first, let’s consider the definition. Racism can be defined as holding one race superior to another, or as the hatred of a specific race of people. Pretty simple. And while our friends on the left are attempting to redefine the term ‘racism,’ just like they are with the terms ‘woman’ and ‘recession,’ the definition we are using for this exercise has been widely embraced for decades.
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