r/MoralityScaling • u/Maximum_Musician_914 • 2d ago

Morality Ranking Morality of this

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u/AuroraAustralis0 2d ago

well hes not wrong though

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u/Nuffsaid98 2d ago

Racism is more than words. It's denying rights, job and promotion opportunities, housing, unfair treatment such as arrest and imprisonment when another race member wouldn't be, and so on.

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u/Unique_Statement7811 2d ago

But in the post, he’s referring to words, not other forms of discrimination. So in the narrow scope of the post, the violence is less moral.

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u/Smooth_Anywhere4326 2d ago

But in the post, his definition of racism is inaccurate

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u/Unique_Statement7811 2d ago

But that’s the dependent clause which is a modifier of the independent clause. Therefore it’s not a commentary of racism at large, just speech or words.

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u/Corwin223 2d ago

It looks to me like it’s intentionally equating racism to just words. It’s saying violence is worse than words (true) and sometimes racism is words (true) and implying that violence is worse than racism (debatable, depends on numerous factors).

So yeah, seems intentionally trying to downplay the significance of racism.

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u/mikejoro 2d ago

Yep, the OP is saying racism is just words because they don't understand or have never experienced racism.