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I don’t think so. It’s hard to believe someone becomes racists merely from hearing that racism is banned. The issue of hating billions of people is too seriou

• throwaway894345 5y ago
  > It’s hard to believe someone becomes racists merely from hearing that racism is banned. Narrowly, I agree, but we all know that there's a lot of ideological baggage associated with "racism" as a term and specifically how it's brandied about and by whom. At this point, how you talk about racism signals a side in a culture war in which "both sides" are illiberal--and of course the inconvenient liberal center whose existence threatens both sides' dichotomous narratives ("yeah we're illiberal, but those guys are even more illiberal"). > The issue of hating billions of people is too serious to develop as a form of devil’s advocacy. Not in America where racism is incessantly used as a political football by the left and the right (for example, left wing Twitter has been doing its best to racialize the Rittenhouse saga despite that all parties were white; similarly right). > As for the issue of identity politics, I think that’s another discussion entirely. As previously mentioned, it's deeply intertwined with how we talk about "racism".