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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > Would whites re-institute slavery today if they could?
 
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twodot
Aug 7, 2005

You are objectively correct that this person is dumb and has said dumb things

Main Paineframe posted:

He's right, though. This part is literally one hundred percent correct. It's not just a tactic for dismissing arguments, it's verifiably accurate, and you deserve to be dismissed when you come at them with "well, as a white person I've never noticed any of this stuff, therefore you're wrong about racism".
"racism as the insidious enemy that's everywhere" is certainly true. "if you don't see it, it's only because it makes you blind to its presence" is possibly true, but a pretty bad assumption. Racism is a real thing that has real bad effects on our society. This is convenient, because it means when people doubt it is real, we can directly provide evidence that it exists. Telling people who don't think racism exists that they are ignorant dirtbags is true, and possibly fun, but you can't claim that it's an effective argument for the existence of racism. The problem here is the contrast between "verifiably accurate" and "we should dismiss people who disagree". If you are dismissing disagreement, you are not verifying the accuracy, this is an ok strategy as far as I'm concerned, but putting those things next to each other is weird.

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