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How to respond to the 'racist' accusation

Honest people are often attacked as 'racist' by Leftists. For too many years they have responded poorly. This post outlines some good and bad responses to the malicious 'racist' charge.

Racism

Racism, in one aspect, is morality itself, which is to say loyalty, care, devotion to a particular community, one you can identify with most as it is the most like you. This is the 'positive side' of racism, which Communists seek to destroy for white people only; all other groups are allowed to have it. There is the 'negative side' of racism though. Exclusion is not the 'negative side' and not wrong. You can't have freedom of association without without exclusion, nor the positive side of racism. Apartheid and Jim Crow were not wrong, as no one was forcing blacks to stay near whites and 'access to white people' is not a right or in the communal interest of white people. The only truly 'negative side' of racism is when one group justifies or excuses an act of unnecessary brutality by claiming the victim is less than human. Torture, such as the treatment of Australian POWs by the Japanese, would fall into this category. Is this 'negative s...