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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (578314)7/27/2010 8:16:55 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 1571165
 
Some Democrats are racists as well, perhaps a larger number than the number of Republicans.

Were you laughing when you typed this post?

All of which has little to do with the political football issue. Pointing out the relatively rare cases of serious open (or poorly hidden and impactful and relevant to the current political debates) racism, isn't using race as political football.

Accusations of racism you know are false, or made with reckless disregard for truth (which mainly come from those on the left), should be considered out of bounds.

Like Breitbart did with Sherroud?

Their a problem for multiple reasons. They are unfair and unjustified, they can serve to shut down or distract from debate on real issues, they can make the racial climate more heated and thus perhaps actually increase racism to a minor degree, and they can serve to give cover to real racists, since any charge spread so widely and so often falsely looses some of its sting over time.

You know, Tim, since Obama's electiion, its been like pandora's box has been opened. The number of overt and subvert acts of racism originating from the right have been very surprising. Instead of trying to make hay over this subject, I encourage you to work to stop this garbage from ever happening.
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