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Saturday, January 22, 2011

Belated MLK-Day Observation - Racism is Stupid

I really ought to have posted something on Martin Luther King Day, being that he has always been one of my heroes for his tireless pursuit of a more enlightened world (along with Lincoln, Gandhi, and Henry David Thoreau, plus a couple of dorks that went and founded religions or some dumb move like that, but were pretty righteous themselves at the time). Since I was busy at the time, here's something vaguely appropriate to the topic which I dug out of my old notes, so it's even more belated.

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Racism is stupid in the real world, because in the real world we don't know anything; you can't say for sure that all Chinese people are bad drivers, for example, because you haven't personally spoken to every Chinese person with a car in the world, let alone found out what all other Chinese people would be like if they suddenly gained a car. So you're judging on the basis of ignorance, and that's just dumb.

Now, in a created universe such as a fiction, you have the option of creating valid racial profiles, such as "all elves love the forest", and since you decreed it as a fact, it's true. But I'm of the opinion that this is lazy writing.

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