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jhetley ([personal profile] jhetley) wrote2007-08-18 09:45 pm

Random puzzlement

I wonder, at what point do scattershot accusations of racism become racist?

[identity profile] nathelmi.livejournal.com 2007-08-20 01:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh dear, whom and when?

[identity profile] tobias-buckell.livejournal.com 2007-08-20 04:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Who knows. In my experience I've never been allowed to use the term racist to anyone, they get offended and angry. This includes the people who use the word 'nigger' in front of me and who believed all blacks were X (insert whatever). They couldn't be racist, because racists were bad people who purposefully did bad things and they weren't bad people, they just believed X. But I was always a bad person for even daring suggest the term.

A link would help me make a determination though.