A jutice of the peace in Louisiana is refusing to issue marriage licenses to interracial couples.
He hasn't been fired yet, even though the couple whose refusal made headlines isn't the first he denied (there were four others).
And, of course, this isn't about racism.
This particular justice is not a racist. Not at all.
If you read the article closely, you'll see that the justice has some really good reasons for denying marriage licenses to interracial couples that aren't racist at all.
He isn't a racist.
No one ever is.
No one ever thinks that they're a bad person.
Of course, this is one guy. Louisiana Republicans are calling for the guy to step down, and I'm sure most of the outrage and shock is sincere, so this isn't exactly about the South and it isn't really about Republicans. It's one guy, with more power than he deserves, and really, really sad ideas. The couple will still get married. They shouldn't have had to deal with this, but they'll still get married.
But isolated as it may be (and less isolated than I think many people would like to believe it to be), this still just sort of blows the mind.
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No one ever thinks that they're a bad person.
I was recently questioning the motiviation of the orcs in LOTR with my wife (she's a major LOTR geek). It seemed like they were evil just for the sheer hell of it, and that this was unrealistic.
No one ever thinks that he's evil. We're all exceptionally good at justifying ourselves.
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