This is actually pretty instructive and I think it’s genuinely important to understand it. Normie liberals cannot tell the difference between the most extreme versions of statements they believe to be racist and much more banal, defensible statements. They often demonstrate that they can’t see the difference. They don’t recognize obvious distinctions. They have no interest in parsing statements for their actual meaning. There’s just a line over which you become racist and then everything beyond that line is equivalent.
This is all muddied by the fact that sometimes this happens because the speaker is genuinely just not bright enough to make these kinds of distinctions, but sometimes it happens because the speaker is acting in bad faith toward an out group, but then also sometimes it happens because many liberals have a kind of sense that it’s good to roll all these things up into one package that’s treated as taboo.
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