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by lghh 3169 days ago
Basically, causes are different than effect. A person may have voted for him because of economic promises, but because they thought the tradeoffs on race and gender mattered less than those economic promises they are acting in a way consistent with racism.
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And so the goalposts keep moving. How soon until not giving up your job for a poor minority is considered racist? At what point do we draw the line and say it is ok to have your own self-interest in mind, rather than that of the outgroup? At what point do we stop responding to the bludgeon that is the word "racist"? Eventually you are going to push people into doing actually racist things if you keep trying to deny them the means to self-sovereignty.