What we mean when we talk about racism

[JoeMorgue]

Do you have a better example? Some sort of "people accused of being racist for simple disagreement" that doesn't include yelling racial insults and blackface wearing defenders?

Don't do that. It's just gonna reinforce his idea that racism isn't an issue that either he personally or us as a society has to deal with as long as he can find one counter example to hijack every discussion about racism with.

 

[wareyin]

Don't do that. It's just gonna reinforce his idea that racism isn't an issue that either he personally or us as a society has to deal with as long as he can find one counter example to hijack every discussion about racism with.

You're probably right.

 

[psionl0]

Don't do that. It's just gonna reinforce his idea that racism isn't an issue that either he personally or us as a society has to deal with as long as he can find one counter example to hijack every discussion about racism with.

I have already used the word "fantasy" so I don't know what name to give to this OT tripe.

 

[JoeMorgue]

I have already used the word "fantasy" so I don't know what name to give to this OT tripe.

Well I can't dumb it down anymore.

We're talking about racism.

You're screaming about peopel being accused of racism wrongly/to much/in a way you don't like as if that means anything in this discussion.

You've found one bowl of soup that's too hot. Congratulations. We were talking about the much bigger, much more wide reaching, much more damaging problem of their being a lot of bowls of soup out there that are too cold.

 

[jimbob]

That was the claim. Anybody booing Goodes is a racist. (Why did it take so long to get back to this?)

Any number of arguments can be made to justify the booing or to justify calling booers "racist" but it is clearly because of Goodes race that the racist card is being played.

I'm willing to believe that some people booing Goodes weren't racist - they could have been booing Goodes because lots of their racist co-fans were booing him. They were still taking part in racist booing.

Or at least booing because he had objected to racist insults, which is a distinction without a difference, if you are booing a member of an ethnic minority for objecting to being racially insulted.

I have already used the word "fantasy" so I don't know what name to give to this OT tripe.

Fantasy suggests something highly improbable, as opposed to something almost certain. I suggest you choose a different word.