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In reply to the discussion: The worst kind of political correctness [View all]gulliver
(13,168 posts)23. I only avoid calling people racists. Name calling doesn't work.
Name calling someone a racist doesn't work, because the term has become synonymous with "the worst thing someone can be." People don't hear you calling them out for racism when you call them racists. They don't even think about what the term means. They just reject it.
But I'll call laws racist, systems racist, intentions racist, etc.
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or assuming that calling any white person a racist is calling ALL white people racist
StarfishSaver
Apr 2021
#1
Not only does it sound stronger, the concept of race is not valid in science.
multigraincracker
Apr 2021
#12
Two things Republicans hate: (1) Being called a "racist" . . . . . . and (2) Black People.
Hoyt
Apr 2021
#4
I would assume that Black people don't appreciated being called racist either.
Mossfern
Apr 2021
#13
Somewhere along the line, a lot of people (not all people!!!) decided that...
LanternWaste
Apr 2021
#21
don't forget - " white trash". they hate that too. it was used a lot in the 60's
monkeyman1
Apr 2021
#28
They definitely think a white person being called a racist is worse than being the victim of racism
StarfishSaver
Apr 2021
#18
What gets very old is the implication that we Dems at DU are not empathetic
Laura PourMeADrink
Apr 2021
#53
Some means especially racist Americans, why does that need to be spelled out? tia
uponit7771
Apr 2021
#48
The question I had is who or whom are the white people that the poster can "generally speak" for.
LakeArenal
Apr 2021
#50
It may be, but it's beat out HUGELY for the biggest self-defeating mass clusterfuck.
Hortensis
Apr 2021
#20