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How would you argue with a racist?
What i am about to type i do not agree with, i am just playing devil's advocate.
Ok, lets say you are talking to a white man, and some how the conversation turns to race. He argues the blacks are inferior. His argument says that white people have the most beautiful music (Mozart, Chopin, Beethoven, The Beatles, etc.) and that rap is not music but black cultural expression with a simple beat in the background, and blues and jazz is just the expression of pain and disheartenment. Then he argues white people have created the most beautiful and revolutionary art this world will ever see. And then he continues to literature, that the most renound autors where white (Dostoevsky, Shakesphere, Charles Dickins, Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Hemingway, etc.). And so on and so forth. Then he concludes that black people are only superior to whites in athletics, and that is because of their evolutionary process and how they originated in Africa. After all that he says, sure there are a some blacks who are outstanding, but as a race white stand superior.
Also if you argue that not all people view everything you listed as outstanding and superior (authors, music art, etc.), he means the view of the general community.
If it seems like i put to much time into thinking about this question, and my disclaimer that i wrote in the begining seems disingenuous, well i did think about this question because i want you to think.
And sorry for any grammatical errors, or if there are parts that dont make sense, right now i dont give a damn, its 12:38, so i am not going to double check or even use the spell checker.
14 Answers
- AliceLv 51 decade agoFavorite Answer
Really, you CAN'T argue with racists. They're going to think what they're going to think.
Explain that, as a white person in xyz location, they are only ever exposed to white culture, which is why they have never heard of great black people or art. You could try that position.
- 1 decade ago
play some music or show some art that appeals to the white man, and then reveal the secret that the stuff was actually made by a black man. I personally think that we are equals, I have no problems with any race, I don't understand how people could be racist. Not gonna lie, my fears are spiders, needles, and then the South.
- LéLv 51 decade ago
Why would he point out a group of maybe 20 people out of the ENTIRE white race since time immemorial and say they represent the race as a whole. For every Crime and Punishment, there is a Mein Kumpf. As all races have. Good and Bad.
Would the white race kindly take ownership of :Hitler, Stalin, Milosevic, Tito, Mussolini and King Leopold.. What of these white men???? Just as famous. Do whites have superiority when it comes to monstrous deeds????????????? Or is it only the lovely things:)
- BikerChickLv 71 decade ago
UM... well, I DON'T argue with true racist people. I DO confront them and ASK why they feel that way, and I do insist that they give RECENT FACTS to prove their point. The last time I asked a guy guy WHY he felt believing being a racist was the right way to be, he COULD NOT back himself up at all. He just got angry and stomped out. He is a racist because it is expected of him by his friends and family to be that way, and I know that. All too often, I find they are TOLD what to believe, so they just do it. It makes their life easy that way.
Oh well, his loss, not mine. I really don't care if people are racists, I just wish they actually had valid CURRENT reasons to be. In my book, ignorance is never a good excuse for anything.
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- Anonymous5 years ago
i've got got here upon it a lot extra effectual to ask questions - no longer inflammatory ones, yet questions meant to confirm why they suspect as they do. as quickly as in a blue moon there is unfold out a minimum of a danger of staring at race in a diverse mild. there's no component in arguing with them; that's a waste of time.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
You DON'T argue with a racist.
Anyone who takes such an anti-social stance, and allows the public to know about it, is not going to be convinced he's wrong.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
you could also use that argument with women.
the fact is that history isn't the story of man, it's the story according to those who wrote it. the ones who wrote it were in power. the ones in power were white males.
there aren't any famous female inventors, painters, leaders, composers, etc... same with black.
they just didn't get the opportunity to express that way.
it's censorship and oppression, not fact of difference.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Racists do not understand human biology, or they would not be racists. You cannot argue logically against an opinion which is not logical.
- 1 decade ago
Say how come Black People Like Afghanistan fight and kill our troops and are terrorist that works