Comments by "Dale Crocker" (@dalecrocker3213) on "" video.

@errorswillmultiply1697 You do me a disservice. I am genuinely keen to learn other people's point of view. I only go into troll mode when face with some particular idiocy.
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Got an example?
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Do you believe it is more prevalent, or just more of an issue?
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I'm 76. My parents and most of my schoolteachers were unashamed racists, much along the lines of your uncle. I really genuinely think that their kind of attitude is very much on the decline nowadays.
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There is a huge difference between the instinctive, visceral racism which was prominent in this country sixty or seventy years ago and the more innocent and sometimes justified prejudices of today.
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@mayamelagia Phil gave some. In fact his own experience of trying to buy a syringe is a good example. People jump to conclusions which may be wrong - but they are justified and innocent given the circumstances. Equally, there is nothing inherently wrong with preferring the company of people of ones own race and culture, even if this is based on generalised assumptions which may or may not be correct. There is no sinister motive. It is a justifiable attitude to have. It's not one I share, as it happens, but I respect it in other people.
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@LolMahmood What sort of bigotry, if I may ask?
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@mayamelagia I genuinely believe that the definition of racism has been over-extended. People who want to burn a cross in someone's front garden are surely different from people who simply want to feel comfortable in a group of their own kind. In the latter case you might even find them welcoming individuals from other races or countries, but resent being outnumbered by them. What I'm labouring to say is that by outlawing the second category there is a danger of increasing the number in the first.
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@LolMahmood Just prejudiced against Moslems, I guess. Or even Arabs. But it was clearly nothing personal. It only takes a few bad experiences with a particular group to make people want to tar all others in that group with the same brush.
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@ Nary a one. And I've lived in North Africa and India as well as Notting Hill in the late 1960s.
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@mayamelagia I think we're in broad agreement though in principle though. The question is how much leeway do we give to those on the perhaps less serious end of the spectrum. My guess is you would say none at all, whereas I am quite happy to forgive the odd racist joke or the old lady on the bus who likes living in her village because there aren't any black people there. (She says that, but she would probably be one of the first to offer shelter and help to a black person found on her doorstep in genuine distress.)
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@ The question is how much leeway do we give those on the perhaps less serious end of the spectrum? Personally I'm quite happy to shrug off the odd joke or entirely forgive the old lady I sat next to on the bus the other day who said she likes living where she does because there are so few.... You can guess the rest. But YouTube won't let me write it down. And that makes me a good deal angrier than the little old lady did, I have to say.
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