User blog comment:Hippogriff12/The Scarcity of Racists in Skyrim/@comment-4588723-20120727173034/@comment-4588723-20120728011013

Kelly: Yes, that’s my point – as an American myself I’m a member of Western Civ myself, not an outsider. I am native to the US, although I’ve read and traveled a little more than the average North American Bear and from other places and ways of life around the world I’ve learned how very diverse people are, and that every culture has something to offer, and things to improve on.





@IGAN, the reason I ask others to define their terms is not to give Wiktionary a workout, but in the hope that we will consider what we mean when we use such labels. If we do not make the distinction of the human experience as unique, then prejudice as used by some of our fellow posters would mean any predisposed assumption about any living thing. If typecasting any other species by its biological tendencies is also prejudice, then at the logical end we find a multitude of standards and rules to be prejudiced: public areas around the world requiring dogs to wear leashes when people don’t have to, or people to wear clothes when apes don’t have to, are all guilty of bigoted policies, and pet owners who fence in their property are tantamount to slavers. I hope I don’t have to explain why heading down that road is unreasonable, and why moderation is necessary in applying value judgments. Thus, I’m requesting simply that we consider what we mean before we say it.