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| Disgraced SAE Fraternity |
This FRAT scandal did more, far more then finger a couple of racists on a bus. And it's time to recognize who was caught under this sting's net. But first let me pose the essential question in all this.
What do you call an apologist for racism? That is, what job description do you give to someone who bends reality to come up with plausible sounding reasons to accept or deflect the racist behavior in others? Is it an associate-racist, a racist's apprentice, or maybe just "a racist"? It is also someone who uses his or her verbal and analytical skills to spin the facts so that they turn in the opposite direction. The real victims become the poor kids accused of being racists, who claim that they are receiving threats. It is not the group of people whose ancestors were slaves, several thousand of which were indeed hung from trees. The new culprits become rap singers or Al Sharpton or the existence of black fraternities. While many cogent arguments have been made to explain why these issues have no relevance to the SAE scandal, something else occurred to me. Anyone with the analytical skills to raise such issues, also possesses the cognitive ability to figure out for themselves why such cases are not morally comparable to what happened on that FRAT bus. And it is sometimes far more useful to let people work out such moral issues for themselves, because the problem is not one of information. It is rather lack of self-knowledge, an unwillingness to acknowledge what their own souls are chanting.
I won't bother to name names. Listing the media personalities, pundits, and folks apologizing for the racist behavior of these frat brothers being heard all across the Internet would crash this server.
So, what do you call apologists for racism?
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