[PEN-L:7647] Re: Wao/Wax

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>> Max Sawicky <sawicky@xxxxxxxxxx> 06/03/99 02:29PM >>By this time, I don't care what point he is trying to make.
Anyone who insists on reacting to negative comments on their
posts or thinking with accusations of racism is not worth taking
seriously.  I'm not going to engage someone who takes as given
and resorts in argument to the premise that I am racist.  It
would be self-abuse.  Let white liberals agonize over this
nonsense.  I'm not going to.

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Charles: This is "classic" 80's/90's blaming the victim. He accused of racism claims to be victimized by such accusation. This is part of the pernicious "reverse discrimination" doctrine.


This tactic is rife in American political life today.  Winning acceptance of it among the masses of white people was critical in reversing the trend toward ending racism, which was resulting in part from the sharp anti-racist rhetoric and ideology of the 1960's/70's.  Making the use of the terms "racism" and "racist" "unfair" debating tactics was an enormous accomplishment of Reagnism. It is part of the "anti-political correct" doctrine of the rightwing.