No, he was just looking for an outlook to intellectualize and justify racism. There are so many ways he could have gone in how he expressed his views. No one can make someone a racist, that's a choice. He was simply looking for someone to say he was justified in his views and say he was right. He didn't care about the consequences or problems with this view. If he was truly interested in addressing this from an objective perspective, he would have worded his comments differently and offered some kind of support for his perspective. And if he wanted to leave, why did he come back? And of all the things he could have done, was being blatantly the most rational, reasonable, and sensible response to people rejecting segregationist views? Really? Of all the possible responses, this was the best one? Sure, makes total sense.
Perhaps you're right. Nevertheless, immediately after this thread was created, he contacted me via pm (thinking I might be a mod), wanting to edit or delete this thread. I think he was trying to address some personal stuff, but had over-dressed it in impersonal (political) language.
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The topic of people being pressured into coherent/consistent categories has been on my mind lately.
Black people are called white-blacks in a derisive way if they don't conform to an arbitrary stereotype. The derision serves as an ultimatum, to which most people respond by conforming to either the derided, or favoured stereotype more closely. Few people seem to maintain an ambiguous non-stereotype in the face of pressure.
In respect of the OP, I can see a plethora of back-stories... but I think it is mostly better to take people as they present themselves: the OP was a person struggling with some issues... the person who was banned was a racist.
I think there is a lack of consciousness here some times about how easily people are manipulated into apologising for what they haven't done, and into defending what they don't believe.
He tried to flip over into apologising and disavowing his difficulties. When that didn't work he flipped the other way. He just wasn't firm about his actual difficulties... but people with difficulties seldom can be firm about anything.
Why he didn't just log off, never to return, but NEEDED to have his account deleted indicates to me some ocd about relationships. The obsessive compulsive eventually hates their beloved obsessions, and it is entirely imaginable that this guy was living in a community with serious racial tensions, in which he was ensnared by his inability to detach.
