Sivad wrote:Your feelings about how outrageous it is is not an argument.
Then it is a good thing I never used my feelings as an argument. For example, I never said that the accusations of racism are understandable.
Most people do understand that calling the cops for bizarre behavior is perfectly reasonable and that charging racism in any and every minor incident involving a minority is not. So you lose in the court of public opinion and that's all that matters in cases like these.
Yes, public majority opinion, aka white opinion, is perfectly okay with calling the police because some coloured boys were acting uppity.
But in debate, such as we are involved in now, this is a fallacy called appeal to popularity.
That does not change the fact that this white woman was, at best, acting out of ignorance of indigenous cultural mores, and was possibly racist.
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Zamuel wrote:Possibly. It's also an example of the Paranoia Isis and Al-Quade have instilled in America.
That is an interesting take on it.
If that is the case, and it may well be, then ISIS and Al-Qaeda are more effective than I thought. They would then have managed to effectively make many white US residents fearful of any person of colour.
Now that I put that way, it does not seem that difficult to pull off.