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In reply to the discussion: Dear Liberals: Being Critical of Islam Is Not Racism [View all]MadDAsHell
(2,067 posts)...on censoring ourselves and others. The calls for a "meaningful discussion on race" ring hollow because let's be honest, we have no plans to actually allow certain things to be said/discussed regarding race. As soon as there's a statistic or opinion we don't like we plan on immediately shouting that person down as a racist, and walking away insisting we can't waste our time arguing with a racist (conveniently excusing ourselves from actually having to state our own opinions on the subject).
Direct observation doesn't matter anymore because if you see something that might confirm a stereotype, it's racist.
Statistics don't matter anymore because if they seem to infer some truth to a stereotype, they're racist.
A few years ago I recall a Baltimore newspaper refraining from stating the race of an African-American man at-large for raping a 90-YEAR OLD. You've got a violent criminal at large, the public deserves information, and yet you tell them everything about a suspect BUT his race for fear of offending. How is that helping anyone?
Should we be discriminating in airport lines? Probably not.
But on the other hand should we be patting down the 90-year grandmother from Iowa just to be "fair"? Probably not.
I don't know what the solution is, but I do know the neocons LOVE watching us, to save face, be forced to eat our own when they say something stupid.
We are killing our party from the inside out.