I'm also wondering if "dumbocrat" counts as one of those logos-destoying insults.
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From: Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com>
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>> Like all personal insults, whether or not ending in "ist," it would
>> totally subvert the logos of the discussion underway. Otherwise it
>> would be welcome as one's opponent's humiliating admission of defeat
>> in argument.
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> Note: In the context of the whole quotation from Angela, it makes a
> difference that the hypothetical "insult" was NOT "You are a racist" but
> "You are BEING a racist."...
Since "being" and "are" are both forms of the verb "to be," "being" in "are being" is merely an intensifier, emphasizing the insult that you are *now* a racist. If one meant "arguing like" or "making a racist argument" one would say so.