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Originally Posted by PsYcNeT
That's the logical conclusion isn't it? If telling people that racism is bad, being a bigot is bad, oppressing people based on skin color is bad, etc. etc. is "repressive" and "tyrannical", then I guess we should all just kill ourselves.
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C'mon, you don't honestly believe it's that simple, do you?
Progressive: "Bigotry is bad."
White guy: "Shut up!"
The issue isn't simply that there are good people who think bigotry is wrong and bad people who think it's okay. An ideology emerged out of the left in the last 20 years which asserts that racism happens because of A, B, and C, and the only remedies for it are D and E. The problem is that A, B, C, D, and E are political dogmas that are not widely agreed on even by liberal thinkers. Marxism, post-modernism, anti-Westernism, the blank slate, and identity politics are all political beliefs that can be challenged without resort to bigotry, that reasonable people can disagree about. But to do that you would actually have to be open to debate, which the ideologues of both the left and right are not open to (that's what makes them ideologues).
It's much easier to treat anyone who disagrees with you on any of a half-dozen issues as an incorrigible bigot than it is to engage and try to defend your opinions rationally.