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Slideshow: Tea Party in the Desert

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alexknyc3/29/2010 4:50:15 pm PDT

re: #226 Obdicut

He said something true about race in America— a typical person still reacts to someone he doesn’t know partially along racial lines. The Harvard Implicit Association test is a very easy proof of that.

[Link: implicit.harvard.edu…]

He also made it clear that he was not at all saying his grandmother had any racism in her whatsoever.

I don’t know if you can have it both ways.

Someone reacting to a person he doesn’t know partially along racial lines means racism (using definition 1 from dictionary.com) is present. If you’re making snap judgments (even if they’re initial) and using race as a guideline, how is that not racism?