We created each other.
John Lynch (great name for this work) a brilliant white commenter on the Althouse, explains things to the others:
1. Crack posts, calls people racists.
2. Everyone denies being racists.
3. Crack says, yes you are.
4. Everyone calls Crack crazy, psycho, whatever.
5. Crack calls them racists again.
6. Everyone starts saying racist things about black people.
7. Crack is proven right.
It's too easy.
This is completely intentional. Notice how it takes no time at all to bring people to racist insults when the gloves come off. Same with sexist/homophobic/whatever insults. We're all very enlightened until confronted with someone we don't like.
Losing will do that.
Think that might be the point of the exercise? Exposing what we really feel? Showing how easily racism surfaces given the smallest excuse? Hell, in this thread it's even topical!
Keep an eye on that elephant.
If you don't think you're a racist, then don't talk about it. You're not the target. Let it go.
If you hear the dog whistle then you are the dog.
It was originally tested by hitting white princes.
Just so you guys know what that last part was about, I informed my white colleagues the rolling pin, among many other inventions, came from a black man. They, of course, were under the impression blacks never created anything in America. Here's how that was so eloquently voiced:
I sho is tired of being made fun of.
Their racism and willed ignorance - almost-always coupled with an unearned, over-wheeening arrogance - is the whitest of all white's weaknesses,…
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