Is it normal to see past race?

did bill punch the black man cause he was black or cause he was an asshole who was coincidentally black?

thats the difference between assault and hate crime

Very normal!

What is the point in bringing up race into things it has nothing to do with? I've never understood why people feel compelled to.

It always seems to be the people who are trying way too hard to be "woke" and always have to make everything about race when race has nothing to do with anything at all, who actually tend to be the most racist, IMO. I've also noticed that those types are usually shitty people in general trying really hard to have some sort of a cause and virtue signal about what great people they are and how they are *totally not racist* (they go on, and on, and on about how much they love and care about other races and how they are not racist; but if you're actually not racist, why do you need to try so hard to convince others and constantly shout it from the mountaintops?), and they usually put on a big show on their social media pages, where that is all they can talk about. Just a pattern I've noticed.

To me, the person constantly obsessing over race and who defines people by their skin color is the one who is at the very least prejudiced.

I can say I use to never think about race but since the political shift (Trump supporters are racist narrative, BLM riots, white privilege debate) I feel that I notice race more than ever and it has made me more prejudice towards some people.

I worked with only black people for years and sometimes it seemed like walking on egg shells not to offend them. They would openly express their opinions on white privilege and supremacy but if I mention something like black crime rates are responsible for profiling blacks they would start yelling they would get very offended and cold shoulder me for a few days. They never pulled punches but wanted me to. Their facebook posts are often "White people always..." "why are white people..." "ever notice white people..."

I have realized that black or white the people that always tend to "stand up to racism" are always the most racist.

I was never racist in my life. Then the Black Lives Matter thing happened last year and I realised that the blacks in our society are the most racist people I have ever come across. It now makes me feel like black people can’t be trusted to be decent civilised people, so now I feel more racist than I ever was.

You're reading too much into it. It's just a descriptor. It would be the same thing as saying "Bill punched a tall guy with blonde hair". Skin color is a very easy and obvious identifier. That's it.

People who protest racism are racist asf for considering race something that should even being a thing in this day and age. Tribalism is nothing but a scourge.

It’s just like many feminists are woman haters, making woman look weak. It’s only their individual self they’re trying to validate and con the system for.

And the general sjw types seem to want to control people in order to not feel like just another person on the street. They come across essentially as Hitler if he had no discipline and a learning disability.

I can smell Caucasians with my strong Caucasian schnoz

In 2019 it was.