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Cheesefrog's avatar

This is great news. All I have to do to virtue signal to others that I'm not a racist is take my shirt off and display my lack of fitness. So I got that going for me...

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Dr Mantis Toboggan's avatar

Calling everyone they disagree with “racist” has lost its sting. Used to be, bring called racist was a terrible slur. It could be counted upon to derail any conversation because the accused immediately switched over to defending his good name, abandoning the substance of the matter disagreed upon. But when everything is racist, nothing is racist.

Enter “white supremacism”. Racism on steroids, with a barely concealed whiff of Naziism and the Klan. Just as roughly 60% of the US population has learned to brush off constant accusations of racism, it’ll be even quicker to dismiss the more virulent form.

As an aside: I’m the first to admit that racism exists, for the plain and simple reason that assholes will always walk among us. But at what point does constantly telling a person he’s racist become a self-fulfilling prophecy, i.e., it starts to engender negative feelings toward the accusers that weren’t there to begin with? If creating division and hatred is your goal, constantly accusing someone of being something he’s not would be a pretty good way of going about it.

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