(Raot, you didn't read my post very thoroughly, as I accused his household of being primitive and specifically noted that it couldn't possibly be his entire country.)

No, Raot. No, Mates. I assure you that I did not misunderstand a single word. Mates just wrote one single line that absolutely proves in my mind everything I had thought of his viewpoint was accurate.

I repeat, there is no misunderstanding here. Check this out.

Mates:
Let them kill each other if they please, but I don't want to get involved in their fight.

There's something neither of you seem to understand here. By you know, walking around and being alive and being black, I am offending people to the point that they want to murder me for it - that part is entirely one-sided. I'm not trying to murder them. I oppose their beliefs by walking around and being faster, stronger, smarter and more successful than they are for every day of my life.

I'm so sorry, Mates, so very sorry, that you have to watch TV and be bothered by racism. I'll remember that sorrow the next time my own well-being comes under threat for dating a white woman, or walking into the wrong restaraunt, or taking a seat at a bar too close to another party. You poor thing. How do you get along without being bugged by racism? I'll see if I can remind the descendants of any Jewish families I know to be gassed a little more quietly for you, should anything like that ever occur again. We wouldn't want you to be bothered by or involved in "our fight".

To those of us who know racism in our lives (not just "on the TV") from the wrong end of it, it IS a very simple matter. If you "just want to stay out of it" and you're the type that would turn a blind eye to a man getting attacked, threatened, or murdered for being born a certain color then you are sick and you are a monster. Period. If you don't actually believe that people of a certain ethnicity are inferior but you don't speak up when these things happen around you, then you're a self-important, cowardly little weenie. Racists are more respectable than that - at least they stand up and take action for what they believe in.

But there is no debate here, folks. This isn't two-sided. There are NO positives to racism. There is NO logical support for it. It is a belief system that says things like "You and everyone who is the same color as you is inferior and/or you should die". If you aren't absolutely 100% opposed to that line of thought, or if you'd conveniently ignore it like Mates says, then guess what?
You're a huge, flaming racist.

You wanna know why there can be no grey area, Raot?
Because indifference is why the Holocaust happened, and it's why in some places it could still happen today.

From a potential victim's standpoint, let me tell you first hand that either you're absolutely 100% opposed or you're one of them, and I wouldn't doubt that any self-respecting black or Jewish man, woman, or child would tell you the same.

And that's all there is to it.