Name-calling

Would you call someone who as a youngster had been shoved ,kicked, punched, and knocked down to the ground by African-Americans and is now viscerally afraid of African-Americans racist?

-Lily H.

Today calling someone (or thing) racist is like saying someone (or thing) is awesome.

"He is racist."    "She is racist."   "They are racist."   "You are racist."   "That is racist".  I get it:  racism is like the common cold.  Calling someone racist, not racism itself, is the modern-day plague.  Its overuse cheapens the word and detracts from the instances of real racism.  

Today, calling someone (or thing) racist is like saying someone (or thing) is awesome.  

Banal, exaggerated, and usually void of meaning other than that of being simply a marker of political allegiance (+ expediency).

It is sometimes vicious, as well.


-Lily H.