Yeah, I've completely given up on foldn.

Foldn, they don't get that spewing even more false accussation and derision makes them look even worst than before. It's actually fascinating how hard they are spewing across multiple threads in both forums.

So are they kind of like the racists who just don't learn even when told how and why their behavior is stupid straight up and repeatedly? It's really damn odd for a bunch of liberals to be so consistently and aggressively anti-community like this.

Foldn is a moral relativist, but only as applied towards "conservatives." Calling something racist though - well, that's an insult against God and nature. Very bizarre.

The tea party anti-government doctrine is an in-road for white supremacist anti-government doctrine and we have lots of anecdotes of tea party members exhibiting racism and other prejudice. So comparing the tea party to the KKK is not very out of bounds and is also quite explicit, so not a dog whistle. The false balance, 'both' sides do it viewpoint towards racial instigation using political speech is not exactly accurate.

Counter-racist politics is naturally going to instigate racists. So it becomes a question of whether or not the basis for instigating is fallacious or exploitable by racists.

Foldn, I need your help! Just this morning I was accused of making a post that was borderline racist! What is the most appropriate way for me to completely freak the **** out about this? You were right, man. People just throwing that word around with abandon, and now my good name has been irredeemably besmirched with the scarlet R.

Now, I know that I need to whine about this non-stop for at least the next 6 months, or possibly forever, but is that enough? Should I also send threatening PM's? Should I report the post? Do I complain to the mods? Do I complain about the mods? Is an ATF thread warranted?

I know you got my back here man, and I eagerly look forward to your vigorous defense of whatever it is I did, because somebody somewhere got called racist.

Zikzak, remember to make a big stink about overly-sensitive, PC cowards before losing your **** and stomping off forever.

Zik zak is an epic whiner, I never noticed. How can racism be serious while at the same time accusations of racism are not serious. Y'all have never answered that question.

Also, when does a person stop being a racist?

At which point do you all receive a signal of a persons change of heart or mind (while they are out in the wild recovering from the meltdown) which would make it correct to stop repeating the bald accusation of racism as a mob?

You are targeting people for having emotions again, which is not humane or intelligent. Also very stale, since the emotional event you are indirectly referring happened more than a few moons ago.

What do you think they meant?

Now you are making a generalizations. The exploitive nature of political language justifies plenty of questions and answers. I do believe the term politically correct is loaded and outdated, but challenging how and why we communicate in politics has legitimate reasons and concerns.

I don’t think he’ll be acquitted. What I think is that he won’t be convicted just because he shot a fleeing suspect in the back, but rather because he shot a fleeing suspect in the back who (or whose escape) didn’t pose an imminent and serious threat to the cop or the public.

Does it matter? It was the R word! Directed at me! I can only assume the absolute worst of intentions, regardless of context.

In fact, I think it best if I immediately forget all of the surrounding circumstances and misinterpret the whole event as some sort of continual, viscous attack against not just myself, but everything I believe and everybody I know. All of it done for petty partisanship point scoring, and in no way a reasonable criticism of the actual words I used to express something.

Yes. Racism musn't be involved. Read you loud and clear.

Or you could just point out the "Yemeni" is not a race, so you can say anything you want about them (those bastards). That's just logic.

The video I watched last night clearly showed them walking in the middle of the street.

Best do the Opposite George thing with your reads; ev go way up.

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Lol if you think an occasional misunderstanding is what happens around here in a thread where Fly just finished calling me a racist because, I dunno, I have an opinion or something he thinks is stupid. The problem here is much deeper than the Bruce defamation, it's that it's a constant cynical and dishonest argumentative tactic used to troll everyone he disagrees with, and guys like you cheer him and his minions on. This ruins any constructive conversations on race. Many of those who don't agree seem to think they have it all figured out, and everyone should just 'fall in line or gtfo racist apologist!' and that is what is so ironic and stupid.

FoldN, do you think William F Buckley was a racist?

Foldn,

It's really not that hard to have this all figured out.

So your response to my criticism is to do the exact thing I'm criticizing?

No one as far as I know cares about the R word in itself. it's always meanings not words.

So what did you think they meant?

And there's the problem. You don't. I mean, you're really far gone. For example, you posted a couple pages back that believing the witnesses in Ferguson were biased against the cops is racist. That's so wrong I can't even. How can someone not see how flawed a statement that is? It's the sort of thing that get's called playing the race card, but I think you actually believe it so I don't know what to think of it.

Oh, prejuding that a group of people are worse than others based only on skin color isn't plainly racist? Do tell.

Did I take something you said that was not racist and try to "win" the argument by calling you racist because I know what you really mean and I actually cannot "win" without doing that? Oh, of course, that's not what you are criticizing because that doesn't happen.