If someone is really sick of everyone calling them a racist, maybe the problem is actually them being a racist. I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve been called a racist in my nearly four decades of life, and every time it was by a conservative claiming I was being racist against white people. (I am a white man.) I am extremely opinionated and very open about my opinions. So the problem seems not to be that everyone with a loud opinion is labeled a racist.
And yes, you were literally talking about racists not feeling able to express their opinions without consequences. I don’t view that as a problem. There should be consequences for expressing a racist opinion.
It is rather telling though that nowhere in my comment did I claim that you are racist, but that’s how you interpreted it.
Didn’t say I thought you thought I was racist. I said you just decided anyone I pointed out that may have been tired of ism cries was racist (and that was your statement).
Here’s a great real life example. Some of the worst coworkers I’ve had were DEI hires and they stayed on for 6 months of lost productivity because the company had to get every duck in a row because the expectation was that lawsuits would come. So I get 2x workload for someone we shouldn’t have hired and couldn’t fire. I’ve also had great coworkers who were hired regardless of race or other ism. I am not a fan of blanket statements that DEI just solves problems because it has actually affected my ability to keep work life balance drastically in the past. So when I say this, if your reaction is that I’m a racist/homophobe/etc. for expressing legitimate problems, then that reveals the same problem I’m pointing out. And if not, then maybe I need to reevaluate the sentiment that I have seen among people towards Democrats at the moment (which is, it isn’t worth having such discussions because they’ll just be called some ism despite legitimate experiences that should lead to a real problem solving discussion).
If someone is really sick of everyone calling them a racist, maybe the problem is actually them being a racist. I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve been called a racist in my nearly four decades of life, and every time it was by a conservative claiming I was being racist against white people. (I am a white man.) I am extremely opinionated and very open about my opinions. So the problem seems not to be that everyone with a loud opinion is labeled a racist.
And yes, you were literally talking about racists not feeling able to express their opinions without consequences. I don’t view that as a problem. There should be consequences for expressing a racist opinion.
It is rather telling though that nowhere in my comment did I claim that you are racist, but that’s how you interpreted it.
Didn’t say I thought you thought I was racist. I said you just decided anyone I pointed out that may have been tired of ism cries was racist (and that was your statement).
Here’s a great real life example. Some of the worst coworkers I’ve had were DEI hires and they stayed on for 6 months of lost productivity because the company had to get every duck in a row because the expectation was that lawsuits would come. So I get 2x workload for someone we shouldn’t have hired and couldn’t fire. I’ve also had great coworkers who were hired regardless of race or other ism. I am not a fan of blanket statements that DEI just solves problems because it has actually affected my ability to keep work life balance drastically in the past. So when I say this, if your reaction is that I’m a racist/homophobe/etc. for expressing legitimate problems, then that reveals the same problem I’m pointing out. And if not, then maybe I need to reevaluate the sentiment that I have seen among people towards Democrats at the moment (which is, it isn’t worth having such discussions because they’ll just be called some ism despite legitimate experiences that should lead to a real problem solving discussion).