>> Obviously I would never have done that because it would be insane. In so
>> many obvious and predictable ways, it would have added nothing to the debate
>> while detracting from it enormously.
>>
> This is the furthest thing from the world from obvious. Rather than keeping
> the debate civil, you're infantilizing it, and rendering racism a
> depoliticized stigma, rather than a social reality, in the process
So in your view, the fight for racial equality would be helped if intra-left debates involved people more freely accusing each other of holding racist positions.
I guess this is an empirical question. But I shudder to think of what the experiment would look like.
SA