Right, that's a pretty accurate clarification of my position. The implicit assumption in question 4 is that people will be unwilling to apply the label 'racist'

Right, that's a pretty accurate clarification of my position. The implicit assumption in question 4 is that people will be unwilling to apply the label 'racist' to a position they believe to be true. Here I get to quote Paul Graham[1]: "In every period of history, there seem to have been labels that got applied to statements to shoot them down before anyone had a chance to ask if they were true or not." [1]: http://paulgraham.com/say.html http://paulgraham.com/say.html