Aslan:
If you had an argument, I think it was lost long ago because of serious attempts to over-correct the original heated flaws. I apologize for that, because I'd like to agree with you to some extent, but the way you have argued your view has you more defensive and unreasonable than logical and easy to understand. At this point, I'm not even sure what you believe exactly. The general gist of it that I still see present is that you feel this superior feeling to knock down every bad/illogical (in your opinion) argument that steps into your direction. You can't expect anyone to think that is even a half-way reasonable attitude. The moon is cheese example doesn't even really matter for any of this because I know it has nothing to do with what you're thinking of. If we float back down to a realistic plain, I'm going to assume you plan on disputing any claim towards anything that isn't scientifically/logically based that you disagree with. Fine, but not everyone thinks like that. Sure you can dispute it up and down the road and back, but if you do so, the summing point is that you're going to come off more as a jerk than anything else. You can't change a lot of people's minds, and sure it's your right to argue their point, but if you expect/demand a reasonable retort from them, than don't get your hopes up, because a lot of people just won't give you one. I don't know many people that want a battle, knowing that their opponent is going to skip off and screaming hurrah I'm the winner because they already believe they were right to begin with. There are some things in life just better left alone. Of course serious issues are worth full discussion, but you completely lose point and face when you become aggressive or domineering, or start making critical demands/challenges. I can't even completely respond because you've jumped around so much it would take a spreadsheet to make a point about everything you've said!
Racism isn't dead, hardly. Geez I live in the South, half the people I know are liberal AND racist. It isn't prominent anymore because it's so taboo, but oh I assure you, it's there. Sure we've made great strides to end it, politically correct strides, but the generation that grew up surrounded by racist vibes is still alive and kicking, and they've taught their kids similar values, who will later teach THEIR kids the same thing. They just don't express it anymore because of the condemnation that they'd receive. I'm not racist, and I don't promote racism, but hell it's there whether you like it or not. Who knows what it will take to correct the issue, but I can tell you that it will take a very, very long time to even half-way eliminate it, and I don't even believe that it CAN be eliminated. It's human nature to hate, and pinning it on someone of a different culture/color than yourself makes hate especially easy.
