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.
>
How is it helped by us shrinking from doing so? I mean, I come from a political mileau (teenage anarchism) in which that kind of thing was frequently and comically overdone. But if one of us feels that a particular position is racist (in its implications, not its inspirations, about which I care not a whit), what's to be gained by delicately tiptoeing around the subject? How is it even conceptually possible to organize against racism if we're fearful of realistic discussions about what it actually looks like?
> I guess this is an empirical question. But I shudder to think of what the
> experiment would look like.
>
Well, that's what comes of treating racism as a depoliticized stigma, rather than a social reality.
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