Thank you for having that interview, John. Brave of you to enter the lions den and engage with someone who may or may not have had an honest desire to debate the question fairly. The comment section was adamantly engaging in implicit bias...against you. Most of commenters didn't really hear anything you said. I watched both videos, and I'm glad you posted the entire context of the comments Joe Rogan made. One thing to keep in mind is that Joe was "high as f...k" during the experience he was describing. The fact that he realized he had made a racist-sounding comment while under the heavy influence of whatever he was high on tells me he isn't "implicitly racist".
Leftists and blacks who want to keep racism alive is the reason there is racial conflict, what little there is that isn't purposefully created, alive in America. Far left progressives will not be satisfied until reverse racism is fully established and white people are the objects of overt discrimination. Not at all because they have any real love or appreciation for black people - far left progressives are more racist than any KKK member who ever existed, and they are oppressing our black population aggressively. I'm sorry more black people don't see that.
The biggest problem with "implicit bias" as described by the Left is that it is dependent on the racist presupposition that simply because of the color of your skin, you somehow will see people of other skin colors as inferior. This is an absurd premise and fundamentally racist at its core and should be rejected outright by any rational, reasonable person.
As the author correctly points out, intent should be the focus of discussing the actual presence (or lack) of racism, context *must* matter, this is a fundamental rule of reality. [The Left's ongoing denial of reality in every arena is what truly drives their own racism and other areas of culture and politics where they destroy everything they touch.]
When I was young back in the 70s and 80s, almost every white person I knew was very sympathetic to the problems of black people. They weren't all actively campaigning for equal rights, but they were on the side of equal rights. I'm not saying there were no racists in the country. But I can only think of one that I ever met. They were either very few, at least in my part of the country, or they kept their opinions to themselves.
But I've seen in just the last 10 years or so a radical change. More and more white people that I know are saying that they are sick and tired of being called racists and that it doesn't matter what they do, they will be called racist. They're getting fed up with it. Their sympathy for the problems of black people is draining away when they get blamed for it despite the fact that they had nothing to do with it.
It takes more than human strength to forgive someone who has offended you, either accidentally or purposely. This is supremely evident in the life of Jesus Christ. The love that Jesus showed needs to be taught in all communities.
Thank you for having that interview, John. Brave of you to enter the lions den and engage with someone who may or may not have had an honest desire to debate the question fairly. The comment section was adamantly engaging in implicit bias...against you. Most of commenters didn't really hear anything you said. I watched both videos, and I'm glad you posted the entire context of the comments Joe Rogan made. One thing to keep in mind is that Joe was "high as f...k" during the experience he was describing. The fact that he realized he had made a racist-sounding comment while under the heavy influence of whatever he was high on tells me he isn't "implicitly racist".
Leftists and blacks who want to keep racism alive is the reason there is racial conflict, what little there is that isn't purposefully created, alive in America. Far left progressives will not be satisfied until reverse racism is fully established and white people are the objects of overt discrimination. Not at all because they have any real love or appreciation for black people - far left progressives are more racist than any KKK member who ever existed, and they are oppressing our black population aggressively. I'm sorry more black people don't see that.
The biggest problem with "implicit bias" as described by the Left is that it is dependent on the racist presupposition that simply because of the color of your skin, you somehow will see people of other skin colors as inferior. This is an absurd premise and fundamentally racist at its core and should be rejected outright by any rational, reasonable person.
As the author correctly points out, intent should be the focus of discussing the actual presence (or lack) of racism, context *must* matter, this is a fundamental rule of reality. [The Left's ongoing denial of reality in every arena is what truly drives their own racism and other areas of culture and politics where they destroy everything they touch.]
When I was young back in the 70s and 80s, almost every white person I knew was very sympathetic to the problems of black people. They weren't all actively campaigning for equal rights, but they were on the side of equal rights. I'm not saying there were no racists in the country. But I can only think of one that I ever met. They were either very few, at least in my part of the country, or they kept their opinions to themselves.
But I've seen in just the last 10 years or so a radical change. More and more white people that I know are saying that they are sick and tired of being called racists and that it doesn't matter what they do, they will be called racist. They're getting fed up with it. Their sympathy for the problems of black people is draining away when they get blamed for it despite the fact that they had nothing to do with it.
It takes more than human strength to forgive someone who has offended you, either accidentally or purposely. This is supremely evident in the life of Jesus Christ. The love that Jesus showed needs to be taught in all communities.