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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
I disagree, and here’s why. If you don’t call out racism, especially when it’s explicitly racist, you’re letting it fester and grow. You’re never confronting the root of the problem, instead just dealing with a few basic symptoms as they come up. By refusing to call racism, racism, you are reinforcing it. Racism, and racists, rely on it being hidden, so it’s absolutely essential to blow it out in the open as you see it.
You’re suggesting there’s two options, call out racism, or countering points as they’re raised. You should do both, and doing one and refusing to do the other is equally ineffective regardless of which you choose.
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It great to call out racism when/ where it's happening. You however call racism on those who simply disagree with you and those who present facts, evidence and witness accounts that don't fit your emotional reactions. The way you throw "racist" around, the word has lost its power, it's meaning on this board. It's not racist to want the investigation results released before acting. It's not racists to trust in the judicial system, it's not racist to back police departments. It's not racist to condem rioting,looting and arson. It's not racist to expect anyone under arrest to follow police orders. You can call out racists all you want but I do not belive you even truly know what a racist is.