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Calling Someone ‘Racist’ Is Not Going to Help You Win an Argument
New York Magazine ^ | 11/23 | Drake Baer

Posted on 11/23/2016 2:43:33 PM PST by nickcarraway

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1 posted on 11/23/2016 2:43:33 PM PST by nickcarraway
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2 posted on 11/23/2016 2:45:51 PM PST by Emergencyawesome
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Calling names is all the left has.


3 posted on 11/23/2016 2:47:44 PM PST by Parley Baer
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People who resort to that just want to end the argument, not win it.


4 posted on 11/23/2016 2:49:05 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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Is separatism racism? IIRC Lincoln initially favored moving blacks to Liberia (not saying that is good, bad, or whatever).


5 posted on 11/23/2016 2:51:46 PM PST by SteveH
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The purpose in calling someone racist is NOT to win the argument, but to shut the opposition up.

A person uses such allegations when they run out of talkingpoints and don’t know how else to advance their position in an argument. They resort to name-calling.


6 posted on 11/23/2016 2:51:57 PM PST by TomGuy
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Oh, got it. My name is TinyOwl and I 'have racism'. OK.

I love that no one has learned that the Trump voters aren't racist, which is what you'd expect from this type of article, they are congratulating themselves for realizing that even though we are racist, if they start out by calling us that, we will never be able to learn that we are, because we're so sensitive.

Hi, I'm TinyOwl, and the people with liberalism say I have racism.

7 posted on 11/23/2016 2:51:57 PM PST by tinyowl (A is A)
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Leftists don’t always call people racists. They cry a third of the time and throw F bombs another third of the time


8 posted on 11/23/2016 2:59:12 PM PST by ari-freedom (The Social Justice War is over and we won!)
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'Racist' ?

Frankly, I no longer give a tinker's damn, and there are millions more of the same opinion.

Sticks and stones, etc.

9 posted on 11/23/2016 3:03:56 PM PST by tomkat (doesn't do 'social media')
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Yes. They label, then attack for what the label THEY applied implies. They cheat at everything. They lie as a normal way of life. They silence disagreement by any means. Their ends (being bully bosses) justifies their means (bullying).

They are heartless, vile, perverted and mean people. Liberals, progressives, leftists, socialists - whatever you want to call them - they are evil people. They hurt people and like to kill babies in the womb. They hurt and pervert society. They hurt and weaken America.

Enough with them. Shut them down.


10 posted on 11/23/2016 3:04:03 PM PST by polymuser (There's a big basket of deportables.)
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11 posted on 11/23/2016 3:07:34 PM PST by tomkat
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If you want someone to listen to you, don’t offend them.

The lefties are just figuring this out now? They aren't the geniuses that they claim to be. This is a lesson that should have been learned in grade school.

12 posted on 11/23/2016 3:10:57 PM PST by bkopto
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Neither does sexist, homophobe, xenophobe, nativist...


13 posted on 11/23/2016 3:11:26 PM PST by aquila48
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if you say that someone’s actions or words are racist, rather than declaring them to be a racist, then — following the logic of “people first” language

Stupid. Its the same thing they did when anyone disagreed with Obama was qualified them as racist.

Whether you say your words are racists or you are a racist makes no difference to any of us. You can take the "people first" double speak and stick it. I am glad she spent some time with real people, perhaps a few more years and she might start making some sense.

14 posted on 11/23/2016 3:12:49 PM PST by usurper
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They don’t want to win an argument
They want to virtue signal to everyone that THEY’RE not a racist.


15 posted on 11/23/2016 3:14:15 PM PST by Lorianne
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They call Donald Trump a nazi (anyone who not agree with them) when George Soros who owns the democrat party is a nazi sympathizer who has stated on 60 minutes that he turned in over 100 people to the nazi’s just so he could sell their belongings.


16 posted on 11/23/2016 3:16:48 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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What happens when something that is “racist” also happens to be true? The culture says that we are then to ignore/avoid the truth. The race card has been played so often because it is so effective.


17 posted on 11/23/2016 3:17:05 PM PST by cdcdawg
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So all those words in the article boil down to is, don’t insult people by calling them racists, insult them by calling what they’re doing or saying as racist.

They avoid like the plague examining why people (including themselves, though they deny it) come to have a judgment that on the average there are differences among races.

The alt right in expressing that reality concerning races gets immediately tarred as racists, even though they are simply being race realists.


18 posted on 11/23/2016 3:30:31 PM PST by aquila48
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98% of Americans are just like Don Rickles, who is not a racist.


19 posted on 11/23/2016 3:31:44 PM PST by The Fop (God Bless Donald Trump, Frank Sinatra, Joan Rivers, and the Fightin' Rat Pack Wing of the GOP)
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Or, is pointing out the reality that blacks have a significantly lower AVERAGE IQ racist?


20 posted on 11/23/2016 3:34:00 PM PST by aquila48
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