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Thanks for admitting that zikzak was correct.
It's pretty simple. I was conceding that his other claims about me "dickbag, troll, something else" are at least arguable from some perspective. I wasn't saying they're true. I believe what I post, most of my positions and comments were not controversial 15 years ago. That they create ban hysteria in people today says more about people's bigotry (intolerance of different opinions) than it says about me. A generation of race and sexual identity politics has changed society a lot, and not for the better.
I refuse to concede that I'm bigoted. I have more tolerance and ability to see different views certainly than you, Wookie, and most of my detractors. It is not a racist claim
in any way to say that modern views of what constitute racism are insane. That some people would disagree with that indicates they are in a circular religion, immune from criticism or change. Don't agree that it's all white people's fault? You must have racism in your heart! The instinct is identical to what created heresy laws, the burning of witches, the mass torturing and murder of millions of business owners and independent thinkers in China as "bourgeois rightists". It's a circular form of reasoning, almost religious and always increasingly strident, in which anyone who disagrees with the tenets of the religion must be racist/evil/in league with the devil/sexist/wanting to exploit the workers.
Such views just aren't healthy - for anyone. In fact it's an enormous social sickness.
It's a shame 2p2 owners are in the middle of it. I'll say more in the other thread.