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[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Adder

How are you still doing this? I didn’t say that Tiabbi “is racist.” Is said I was surprised that he was willing to be as racist as he was in that piece. He wrote a racist piece. Does that reveal his character? That’s up to individual judgment, but the piece and the ideas it expressed were racist, in that it disparaged antiracist ideas and upheld racists ones. What he said had the inherent character of reinforcing existing racial hierarchies and dismissing attempts to dismantle them. It was racist. Whether or not he “is” doesn’t interest me in the least.

I appreciate this post for explaining what you are thinking -- I didn't mean to misquote you, but my objection to the last one was that you called the piece racist without saying anything more.

I don't think disparaging antiracist writing is necessarily racist. If an antiracist tract is poorly written and hard to read, saying that could be fair. Do you agree with Akila Lacy's attack on Lee Fang?