wedrifid comments on Rationality Quotes: December 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 16 December 2010 10:18:54AM *  2 points [-]

It isn't racist, it's realistic.

That category of things that we call racist does not exclude things simply because they are realistic. Political correctness isn't about being fair.

Comment author: [deleted] 16 December 2010 06:34:45PM 1 point [-]

I would actually call a statement racist if it's primarily justified by racism (in which case it will be realistic only if it happens to be so accidentally). Since "racist" has a lot of negative connotations, it isn't useful to call something racist if you plan to agree with it, and therefore if I had to make a racially-based realistic statement, I'd call it something dumb like a racially-based realistic statement.