[joshuapants]

Here's an interesting blog post that covers just that phrase. http://squid314.livejournal.com/329561.html

> If you are like everyone else on the Internet, your immediate response is "Whoever is saying that is obviously a racisty racist who loves racism! I can't believe he literally used the 'I'm not racist, but...' line in those exact words! The old INRB! I've got to get home as fast as I can to write about this on my blog and tell everyone I really met one of those people!"

If you've trained yourself to knee-jerk whenever you hear certain buzzwords, you're probably being intellectually dishonest.

[tedks]

"Intellectually dishonest" is a great buzzword. If you care more about playing according to some conversational rulebook than furthering the development of a just society you really have your priorities in line. It's a literal appeal to authority and it immediately allows you to write off the entire line of argument standing behind it.

[joshuapants]

> If you care more about playing according to some conversational rulebook than furthering the development of a just society you really have your priorities in line.

This is an adorable fallacy, but it's also the kind of thing that would get fixed in a freshman-level philosophy seminar. If you think that you're furthering the development of a just society by ignoring any dissenting opinions, you're not likely to accomplish much.

[tedks]

I'm not going to respond to you other than to call you out as a reactionary and a racist.