The answer is no. The answer is not always. Here is why.
I read this blog post outing another supposedly racist blogger. There is a general feeling online that if you are a racist blogger, you are immediately more childish and less mature than me a non-racist blogger.
But I wonder. And I wonder. And I don’t think it is always the case.
Why?
Let me defer to my much more intelligent and articulate friend thegreatsze who said it best in this blog post. I shall reproduce excerpts of the post below. I also suggest you read the comments for the post.
Racism is a form of discrimination. There are many kinds of discrimination in this world: sexism, ageism, superficiality, etc. One form of discrimination is not, and *cannot* be more egregious than another. This is simply because they are premised on the same foundation - preferential treatment due to wholly irrelevant (and some might say irrational) considerations. Who is to say that racism is worse than sexism, and vice versa?
It is impossible to live life free of bias. We are products of our environments, and different environments will necessarily produce different prejudices.
If you are against racism, it means that you are also logically bound to be against all other forms of discrimination (since they are of the exact same genus).
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