[Malone LaVeigh]

A friend of mine asked me a while ago if I thought he was a racist. My response was that since neither of us voted for obama, we could both be technically regarded as racists in the current cultural climate.
I then repeated something an old Sergeant had told me over 30 years ago when I was in the Army. "Son, if they're going to hang you anyway, you might as well be guilty of something".
Considering the widespread and unwarranted use of this accusation, I wouldn't be at all surprised to see a resurgence of real live undeniable racism in the near future.

[philetus]

I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see a resurgence of real live undeniable racism in the near future.”

True racism is hate.Labeling someone a racist for a non-racist statement is hate.
Social democrats,communists,gays,etc. hate conservatives and Christians.
Who are the real racists?

[PapaBear3625]

Considering the widespread and unwarranted use of this accusation, I wouldn't be at all surprised to see a resurgence of real live undeniable racism in the near future.

I would not be surprised either. By over-use, the term is fast losing its power to censure real racists. When conservatives find themselves being called racist for just opposing Obama, it's hard to drum up support among them to condemn anybody for racism.

[Skywalk]

I’d point to Europe where any attempt at an opposing view to that of the Euro-Left orthodoxy is silenced, even on the right, so that all legitimate discussion, association and political energy is shunted to the publicly discredited and maligned “far Right” of Europe, which often IS racist, anti-Semitic and fascist.

If there is no acceptable alternative but certain truths can’t be denied, people of normally reasonable bent may flow to the unacceptable alternative out of frustration (or being misled by good PR from that group.)