(December 19, 2016 at 3:34 pm)Shell B Wrote: Calling someone a racist isn't really an argument. It doesn't end the discussion at all. However, if the argument is over whether Chinese people should be allowed in movie theaters, you can certainly say to someone, "You are arguing from a racist perspective and are therefore biased." That's a pretty solid end to a discussion there. I'm just arguing nothing, though, since I seem to think you all believe the same thing, but are just not connecting on it for some reason.
It's absolutely fine under certain circumstances, yes, like the one you gave.
I just think the general Left's knee-jerk reaction to everything being "that's racist." is a real dumbing down and oversimplification of the discussion. You can't get an open white supremacist, or even just a regular white person with some subconscious bias, to wake up and change their views without actually hearing the developed arguments they need to hear.
It's also the quickest way to get someone to brick up and not listen to anything you have to say, instead of engaging them.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
