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<blockquote data-quote="The Prowler" data-source="post: 697739" data-attributes="member: 1301">But this is what you said:&quot;in any way&quot;I can only go by what you say.Anyways, I think you are kinda implying that you would be okay with Usain Bolt thinking that he is a superior sprinter to you.&nbsp; Certainly it would not be &quot;racist and hateful&quot;.Now if Usain Bolt was of the opinion that being a fast sprinter is the overwhelmingly most desirable attribute in a person, would that be &quot;racist and hateful&quot;?No.If he had the opinion that a person's &quot;level of worth&quot; is determined solely by their sprinting speed (i.e. faster sprinters are superior people to slower sprinters), would that be &quot;racist and hateful&quot;?No.Now suppose Usain Bolt learns that black people are superior sprinters to any other race; surely gaining some knowledge is not &quot;racist and hateful&quot;.So here we have a black man who thinks that the black race is the superior race.&nbsp; At what point did he become &quot;racist and hateful&quot;?The answer is that he did not become racist or hateful at any point.&nbsp; He identified a certain attribute that he feels is the most important attribute in determining a person's worth, and he learned that this attribute is strongest in a certain race of people.And there is no logical reason to condemn him for thinking that way.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Prowler, post: 697739, member: 1301"] But this is what you said: [I]"in [B][I]any [/I][/B]way"[/I] I can only go by what you say. Anyways, I think you are kinda implying that you would be okay with Usain Bolt thinking that he is a superior sprinter to you. Certainly it would not be [I]"racist and hateful"[/I]. Now if Usain Bolt was of the opinion that being a fast sprinter is the overwhelmingly most desirable attribute in a person, would that be [I]"racist and hateful"[/I]? No. If he had the opinion that a person's "level of worth" is determined solely by their sprinting speed (i.e. faster sprinters are superior people to slower sprinters), would that be [I]"racist and hateful"[/I]? No. Now suppose Usain Bolt learns that black people are superior sprinters to any other race; surely gaining some knowledge is not [I]"racist and hateful".[/I] So here we have a black man who thinks that the black race is the superior race. At what point did he become [I][I]"racist and hateful"[/I][/I]? The answer is that he did not become racist or hateful at any point. He identified a certain attribute that he feels is the most important attribute in determining a person's worth, and he learned that this attribute is strongest in a certain race of people. And there is no logical reason to condemn him for thinking that way. [/QUOTE]

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