A single act/belief/moment does not define one's character.
Absolutely, that's the point: criticising an act for being sexist (or whatever) isn't about judging people, it's about judging actions. Bringing up "But I'm a good person" is a distraction.
And (keeping in mind I'm very tired) is it such a bad thing to be a little bit sexist/racist/blahist
It's a little bit bad. Being very sexist is very bad. And so on :)
"I once drank tequila, does that make me Mexican?"
*is perhaps a little too literal-minded about your metaphor*
The problem with that is that drinking a LOT of Tequila ALL THE TIME doesn't make you Mexican either. Tequila drinking is at best loosely correlated with Mexican-ness.
But doing lots of bad/sexist things all the time does kind of make you a bad person/sexist.
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Absolutely, that's the point: criticising an act for being sexist (or whatever) isn't about judging people, it's about judging actions. Bringing up "But I'm a good person" is a distraction.
And (keeping in mind I'm very tired) is it such a bad thing to be a little bit sexist/racist/blahist
It's a little bit bad. Being very sexist is very bad. And so on :)
"I once drank tequila, does that make me Mexican?"
*is perhaps a little too literal-minded about your metaphor*
The problem with that is that drinking a LOT of Tequila ALL THE TIME doesn't make you Mexican either. Tequila drinking is at best loosely correlated with Mexican-ness.
But doing lots of bad/sexist things all the time does kind of make you a bad person/sexist.