It's like the n-word in rap music (sic)... or the f-word in a Rapinoe sound bite... mere punctuation.
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Everything, and everybody, is racist.
The boy who cried wolf.
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This little fantasy world you all have created here does not fly in the real world. It's fun to have a place to shed the yoke of politeness for humor's sake. I do it for sure. But I wouldn't confuse it with what flies in, well, reality.
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and almost always an expression of a projective defense. Call me whatever you want... it means nothing to me.
consequences in the real world.
No one is accusing Curly of being a racist.
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Blown.
The distinction between those two words has been lost in the last 20 or so years.
There is a big difference between racism - actual animus toward another race - and unconscious bias, or assumptions we make about people based on the way they look, often without realizing it.
We do society a big disservice by conflating the two.
If a cop chokes a black man for selling cigarettes, is he a racist? Maybe, maybe not. But he certainly harbors unconscious - or conscious - bias.
The President’s long history with race suggests he harbors both, by the way.
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Of course if you do or say nothing, no one knows what you are. That though is never the case.
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Especially, antisemitism.