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But then you have to define racists, and this prevents people who are not racist from speaking out of fear of being discriminated against. The cure is worse tha

• Marazan 9y ago
  That is a rock solid gold final sentence. Like, I don't know if that was a carefully thought out zinger or an accidental numbnut of a line but bravo. Bravo.
• pas 9y ago
  Secret discrimination is bad. Clear arguments from your core principles for why not allow something is nigh and day different from the chilling effects that blanket labeling has. Yes, the problem is clearly very nasty, and yes it will inevitably have some marginal effects. But the disease is ignorance, the cure is exercising discrimination AND providing the information to help ignorance. AND of course allow the debate of that information. The debate can be as simple as the 60 piece twitter story about that Viking textile fragment with Allah that turns out to be not Allah. (Where the scholar pointed out that the dating is wrong, the person that claimed that the text is Allah is wrong because there was no space on the textile for that. End of story.) And in case of the Holocaust, yes, there's probably a 0.000000001% chance that we're being bamboozled by the New World Order, but that's almost the same as end of story (because we have more pressing matters).