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Originally Posted by The Bear
I understand the parallel you’re trying to establish, but you couldn’t be more wrong. I’ve never experienced a “Road to Damascus Conversion”, what I am I always have been as regards race and racists.
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If that is the case you mast have had a pretty lonely time in the days when what is now called racism was regarded as the norm (except on the far left).
More likely you kept your mouth shut about it.
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Look, quite apart from a strange belief that there is something wonderful about an absence of melamin in a persons skin, or the form of music they enjoy, or the diet they are accustomed to, the thing that matters is not the word black, brown, yellow, African, Oriental, whatever that precedes the word man, the important word is man.
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Sanctimonious eyewash. Were not Hitler, Pol Pot and Stalin all men? Everything we know about evil (or whatever you want to call it) comes purely from men.
Of the men who make any impact on history a very large number are murderers and tyrants, and as for at least 95% of the humans who have ever existed, the world would be no worse off had they never existed at all.
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Shakespeare illustrated this point in the Merchant with the famous speech by Shylock.
Just to remind (or possibly enlighten) you
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I don't need enlightenment about the 'Merchant of Venice'. I performed in it at school. It was highly approved by the authorities in Nazi Germany and if you think that Shakespeare is an anti-racist you have clearly never read the entire play. He's purely fleshing out the character, just as the director of a gangster movie makes his villain go dewy-eyed over puppies or toddlers.
Try reading 'The Jew of Malta'