obscureprodigy

i understand your hesitation and i commend your approach to others’ sensibilities. however, i wouldn’t consider “why are many americans racist” to be racist, because American isn’t a race. it is a nationality. but even without that, you are specifying within the group and also excluding. you aren’t calling all Americans racist, you are asking why there are a lot of racist Americans. truly, that is a fair question of any people. if your culture is racist… why?

forgive my ignorance, but it seems you are asking why Americans are racist but explaining it in a way where you think it means something else, like you’re talking about a unique kind of racism more common with Americans. genetic superiority is not more common of an idea here than anywhere else. the people who see white and black as you put it, “two different species,” are ultimately how all racists see the world. they might not be equally as violent or aggressive or outwardly hateful, but they would never consider themselves like one of them. maybe i’m not following you and what you’re asking lol, sorry if so.

emotionally, i want to say any and everything including my life, but i know that is merely talk until i have something deadly to face. however, i truly believe there isn’t a single human rights issue not deserving of risking it all. but i am cowardly because i am fearful and insecure. i don’t believe in myself although i try to. i have given up personal comforts for those i don’t know and my friends, but am i ready to face something as severe as prison or being sent to a camp? i want to say “yes, of course,” but… idk. i know if our culture became more radical and revolutionary then i would feel ideological support from those around me and would be more willing to engage.

i was 16 years old and decided, for some reason, that it was a great time to come out as the only gay kid in school in the year 2005. i was living with my father and had to keep it secret because he was extremely homophobic. the kids bullied me and i eventually dropped out because my life was threatened and they told me where i lived after i called their bluff lol, k bye. before then i was able to tell my mother with a school counselor that i was gay. she kinda knew and was fine with it but was worried my life would be difficult.

eventually, my father somehow found out and asked me and i confirmed his suspicions. he told me he didn’t accept it and that i could change. blah blah blah. i thought he would beat me and kick me out, because he told me he would. he said i would never be his child if i were gay. one time, there were two gay dudes in the back of a wedding photo he was looking at with me and his girlfriend, and he tore it up into pieces and said “i don’t want any fucking faggots in this house.” noted! anyway, he didn’t do shit and eventually accepted me. i don’t talk to him anymore because he’s a fascist.

“evil” is usually reserved for people whose actions and/or beliefs reach such an extreme immoral high that they become impossible to defend. morality is a spectrum where objective and subjective lie on opposite ends and everything we do to ourselves, others, and the world can be placed along the spectrum. for example, nobody reasonable would argue against rape being objectively evil.

it seems you are asking if abusers are evil because of the trauma they cause their victims. this doesn’t have a direct and clear answer, because it’s ultimately up to each person who suffered abuse to make that call. of course you are welcome to your own opinion on how you see the abuser, but if the victim thinks differently then perhaps their perspective should hold more weight than yours. or does that matter? victims may forgive their abusers - does that mean society should? it’s complicated.

personally, i think it depends on the abuse and trauma caused. some things feel worse than others. i’ll always feel the way i do regardless of how a victim interprets the event but i wouldn’t make them adopt my view of themselves or how i see their abuser. they have every right to enforce their morality within their own experiences.

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