We need to countercharge when we are accused of racism.
I suggest using the following:
Rule 5: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It’s hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.
Straight out of their playbook...
I had someone charge “racism” to me recently (and they were white) and I started laughing and said, “Really. Is that the best you can do? You can’t debate me on the merits of my argument so are you really going to start calling me a racist?” Caught them completely off guard.
Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.
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A story:
Back in the late sixties, I worked in the inner city of Baltimore, where the Black Panthers, and other groups promoting “black is beautiful” were very active.
One day, stopped at a traffic light, a middle-school-aged boy started to cross the street in front of my car, changed direction and came to my window and yelled “honky, honky, honky.” My immediate reaction was to laugh at him.
I have often wondered what he made of that reaction. He must have thought he was using the equivalent of the “n” word. I wonder if he realized that calling someone ‘honky’ was not a weapon at all. No name is, unless we allow it to be hurtful.