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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
My problem with "acceptable" is that it's the wrong word. No person of conscience ever believed it was acceptable to hate people because of the color of their skin.
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Historically, racism has been about a belief that your ethnic or national group is superior to another, not about hatred.
You keep saying that no person of conscience did this or that, but have provided no evidence to support such an assertion. I've suggested to you as a counter-example that historically, prevalent attitudes of racial superiority were certainly not seen as being incompatible with acting with a good conscience. Dickens' lampooning of such attitudes in the form of the character of Mrs Jellyby is based on real "social reformers" of the day who absolutely considered it their Christian duty to "civilise" the inferior people of Africa. Racist? Yes. Motivated by a genuine desire to help people? Also yes.