>If someone were on Hacker News trying to insist that they had violated the laws of thermodynamics or invented a perpetual motion machine, I would not be called

>If someone were on Hacker News trying to insist that they had violated the laws of thermodynamics or invented a perpetual motion machine, I would not be called upon to prove those laws. 1. No you wouldn't. Unless you were making the assertion that it was widely known and well researched that the laws of thermodynamics could be broken. >Race is a crank theory. It is a most pernicious crank theory because it is tied with some of the greatest brutality the world has ever seen. 2. Yet I am supposed to take at face value that "whiteness as an ideology of European imperial powers is well documented and well studied". That does not mean that I don't think race is a crank theory, but that your initial assertion remains unproven. >You have the Internet. Go use it. It is preposterous to give racists the benefit of the doubt and put the burden on us to bring up the same arguments over and over again to refute them. 3. Please stop using this argument. What you are saying is that you would rather hold hostage knowledge that is supposed to be widely known. The fact is that it's not a google search away. I don't expect you to do anything, but I would have hoped you would have prefaced what you said with a book or something (that isn't just ideological) to actually contextualize the assertion.