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Re: We are all Slave now.
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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I'm totally comfortable with stating that a Trump voter who's doing so for tax reasons aids and abets racism. I don't see any way around that.
I'm not comfortable calling him a racist, however. He might not be one. He might just be a greedy, soulless sort.
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The conversation we are having is, why does Sebby insist that some people who knowingly and intentionally do racist things are, nonetheless, not "racists"?
Saying that you are "not comfortable calling him a racist" nicely gets at the key to this little debate, which is that it's about your comfort rather than some distinction in other people's behavior that you can describe or explain.
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