Yep, David Duke's pretty much certainly a racist.
Plenty of other people are racist, too. I'm a white, middle-class dude, so even I get a little nervous when I walk down the street and someone of a darker skin tone walks by. It's that fear of the Other that we all have inside - someone with a different face, different voice, different body. It's natural to a degree.
You can choose to be racist, if you want to. You can also choose not to be. Just like you can choose to post, curate, and comment on Steemit, or you can choose not to.
I'm not a fan of David Duke. I'm also pretty sick of Zionism too. If David Duke, or Benjamin Netanyahu, or anyone else wants to use Steemit to try to build their own ideology they can go ahead and do that. I won't upvote any of their content, because I'm not aligned with those ideologies.
I'm not going to downvote them either, though. Yeah that sounds pretty awful - I would be permitting what I and many other people consider hate speech to flourish - but people have a right to their opinions, even if it's my opinion that they're awful, divisive, incendiary, and morally wrong. Censorship, even of truly heinous thoughts and ideas, prevents a discussion of just how heinous those thoughts and ideas are.
I noticed you conveniently skipped over my "racism" test. Nobody wants to admit that the act of having a physical preference at all in mating partners is in fact "racism". Should preferences be banned? Where does it end? You can either destroy all political correctness or be enslaved by the parties that use it as a political weapon.
I actually missed your post, as I must have been typing my original reply as you were composing yours.
People are attracted to who they're attracted to. Am I prejudiced for not wanting to have sex with someone I find physically unattractive? It's a physiological response. Sure there may be some learned bias there too, probably quite a bit in some instances, but the idea of running someone down for not wanting to have sex with someone from a specific ethnicity seems as insane as running someone down for not wanting to have sex with someone who wasn't their preferred gender.
If you don't want to have sex with me and I don't want to have sex with you, we don't have a problem. If you do want to have sex with me but I don't, you've got the problem, not me. Accusing someone of being racist for not wanting to have sex with them seems bizarre.
Yep according to r0ach's mentality I could say "Well if I (Female) don't have sex with another Female, then I must be a sexist homophobe." How does this happen? How do people polarize and associate words with things seemingly magically? I'm going to have to blame Television, shit like Fox News, all this shit you see on TV is specifically designed to program people to perceive things dualistically. That's how they keep people from seeing the truth