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> Is there any more toxic label you can attach to a person in contemporary America than "racist?" The actual article did not in fact label him as racist, and I
by ardy42 6y ago
> Is there any more toxic label you can attach to a person in contemporary America than "racist?"
The actual article did not in fact label him as racist, and I don't think you could read it that way without being sloppy.
- pochamago 6y agoIt certainly tried to imply it with things like mentioning that he's cited Charles Murray, and then mentioning Murray's completely unrelated writing on race.
- haberman 6y agoIf you read my comment carefully, I didn't actually say that the article labeled him, I merely asked some questions and posed a hypothetical. And yet you drew an inference about my meaning beyond what my literal words were. You could call this sloppy reading, but I think the truth is that a writer can clearly communicate their intended conclusion without stating it directly. Which is just what Metz did.