"Racism"

[hollodero]

(03-14-2018, 01:07 PM)Bengalzona Wrote: I've heard some of my friends on the right side of the aisle claim that the word is bandied about and slung freely by those on the left side. My friends on the left side of the aisle fully believe we are in a time where racism is running rampant.

I certainly believe the term is thrown around way too lightly, and way too often. 
As in "That's racist because [optinal: lenghthy argumentation full of rhetorical exaggerations and applying oversimplified "anti-racism" ethical guidelines]", my argumentation claims moral highground".

In addition to systemic, less personalized forms of racism, I feel there's also a lot of "real" racism around, often painted as "just honesty" and such, and it's getting increasingly loud and aggressive and attracts more and more people to lower their bar and let their own impulses free. In my country, that is, but I' suppose we aren't that different in that regard.

But in all that screaming, it sometimes gets hard to distinguish. Just sometimes... I feel being more or less rightfully annoyed with the over-sensitive rhetorics of the "left" plays its part in the so-called rise of the right, which is some kind of antidote to that. Exaggeration seldomly helps the cause.