(07-19-2019 11:03 AM)illiniowl Wrote:  Does the admonition for sensitivity you are proposing also apply to those who cry "racist!" at people who, at bottom, just simply have a political dispute with a person who happens to be a POC? I mean, you did say that what crowds do can be misconstrued, did you not? Isn't that's what's going on here -- the casting of simple political opposition to progressive views as racist? And has been going on in some form or fashion for decades now?

I can sympathize with those who are unjustly caught up in the congruence between conservative and white nationalist rhetoric and policy support.

Of course, the near universal I AM NOT RACIST!, in the same way that telling four women of color and American citizens to leave the country is also not racist, does little to suggest that is applicable here.

(07-19-2019 11:03 AM)illiniowl Wrote:  No sane person would dispute that if Ilhan Omar had a miraculous conversion experience, like Paul on the road to Damascus, and suddenly started espousing conservative views, she'd be adored at the same rallies where she is now excoriated. Ergo, the opposition to her isn't racist.

I get that this forum is named after a former poster that didn't believe in evolution and thought Obama was a Kenyan Muslim that had no birth-right for his Presidency, and that the bar isn't very high here. But still.. how? How could you actually believe that?