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Criticizing racism isn't automatically anti-racist. You seem to be assuming that it is, such that pinning the racism tag on the poll absolves Adams. This is fal
by mindslight 4y ago
Criticizing racism isn't automatically anti-racist. You seem to be assuming that it is, such that pinning the racism tag on the poll absolves Adams. This is fallacious.
It's not a good thing that the academic zeitgeist can be racist without suffering repercussions or even much self-criticism, but the right answer is to hold the line of anti-racism rather than jumping into the cesspool and partaking in one's own racist rants.
- ipaddr 4y agoYou can't selectively hold the line. By letting some through you negate your neutrality. Your outrage needs to be broader or it becomes hollow.
- mindslight 4y agoI can't figure out how you're getting "let some through" from what I said. In fact that seems to be exactly what you are doing by defending Adams's racist rant because it happened to be calling out other racism. It's possible to call out the original racism without going on a racist rant yourself, and if you want to be anti-racist that is what you need to do - otherwise one is just being a different flavor of racist.