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by PhasmaFelis 4427 days ago
I'd like to be perfectly clear on this: you believe that there's nothing objectively wrong with racism, it's just unpopular right now?
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Racism as a social crime is an abstract concept and there are no objective criteria by which to determine if a thought is "racist" or not.

I prefer to judge individual actions based on their consequences and/or likely consequences, without forfeiting my right to formulate an opinion due to a popular media outlet applying an abstract negative label. In the context of news media, calling something "racist" is more about trying to forcibly project a view onto the audience than anything else.