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[–]teelo 16 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 0 fun17 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

America, along with most countries out there, including all the "third world" countries, are racist in 2020: towards white people. Including white people themselves, racist towards other white people.

[–]AFutureConcern 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

The term "racist" has to be dropped though. It was only ever a term of subversion; that's why its definition keeps changing. The left owns it. Call the people who hate white people what they are: anti-white.

[–]LarrySwinger2Voluntaryist 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Nobody owns a word. If we call leftists out for their racism, it forces them to confront their hypocrisy.

[–]AFutureConcern 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I disagree. Leftists never confront their hypocrisy; attacking them using their own framing only helps reinforce their narrative that "racism" is the greatest evil that exists. At best, you get small concessions while the general culture shifts leftward.

Conservatives have been trying this for years - has it worked? Or does the left simply get more crazy over time? I think anyone who would have been convinced by the argument from hypocrisy has already jumped ship. Everyone left are bleeding-heart liberals who need to be persuaded a different way.