On 06/28/09 17:43, somebody wrote:
>> I need a certain threshold before I will even _consider_ whether
>> someone is a racist. That's not being binary.
>
> You don't consider whether someone's a racist below a treshold, you consider
> whether someone's racist above it. However you word it (and yes, I realize
> the difference between X and considering the possibility of X), it's a
> binary proposition.

	By that reasoning, yours is also a binary proposition. Either he's not 
a racist, or he might be.

>> My threshold isn't "one incident" (at least in MR's case).
>
> Is it 3, 5, 25? Why do I have a feeling you won't be willing to share that
> treshold with us? :P
	
	Because it's nebulous, and depends on the incident(s).


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