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[Lee Berman]

>> I guess I can't exactly hate racism..how can I hate what is an
>> integral part of my own species?
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> Hate the sin, love the sinner...
 
 
>QFT; the instinctive tribalism in the human animal is not an excuse for 
>the practice of racism, any more than instinctive elimination is an 
>excuse for peeing on the wall when nature calls.
 
It should be quite clear that absence of hate does not equal "excuse". 
 
My own personal philosophy is that encouraging any kind of hate is a sin 
always worth avoiding. Certainly a worse sin than, say, peeing on a wall ;- ).