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Are Some Racist Slurs Okay?
American Greatness ^ | 22 May, 2025 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 05/22/2025 5:17:45 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Racism doesn’t become justice when roles reverse—bigotry dressed as victimhood still poisons the well of a multiracial democracy.

One reason why the public turned on DEI was its insistence that roughly 70 percent of the country was stereotyped as victimizers by virtue of their skin color.

In contrast, the other “diverse” 30 percent were de facto considered the victimized.

In such absurd binaries, the left returned to the old “one-drop” rule of the antebellum South, suggesting that anyone with any nonwhite ancestry was a minority victim.

And once that Marxist-inspired dichotomy was institutionalized, a corollary was established that the self-declared racially oppressed cannot themselves be racist oppressors.

But human nature is universal and transcends race.

One lamentable characteristic of our species is that we are all prone to excess and crudity if not deterred, especially once civilizational restraint is lost.

We are now witnessing examples of what follows when anti-white stereotyping and racism are given a pass—as long as the purveyors can claim their victimhood entitles them to bias.

Recently, WNBA basketball stars Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark got into one of their now-characteristic on-court rivalries. But this time around, Reese mocked Clark as a “White gyal [sic] running from the fade.”

Reese assumes that her status as a Black star grants her immunity from backlash—a privilege unlikely to be extended if the roles were reversed.

Or is her crassness a simple reflection that 60 years after the Civil Rights movement, it is deemed cool or deservedly acceptable to use the word “white” derogatorily?

After all, loose-cannon Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), in one of her accustomed racialist rants, recently went after her party’s big Democratic donors, who raised a record amount of money for Kamala Harris’s short-lived campaign.

Crockett played the race card when claiming

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: angelreese; caitlinclark
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To: MtnClimber

Are some racist slurs ok? Of course! “Honky” and “cracker “ and a million others uttered by blacks anytime they feel like it.


21 posted on 05/22/2025 6:07:29 AM PDT by TalBlack (Their god is government. Prepare for a religious war.)
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To: MtnClimber

ALL speech is OK. All of it. Every word.


22 posted on 05/22/2025 6:09:37 AM PDT by CodeToad
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To: Jim Noble
Someone could call you every slur in the book and no one would care.

You utter a slur and watch what happens.

23 posted on 05/22/2025 6:10:31 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: TalBlack

24 posted on 05/22/2025 6:12:52 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: MtnClimber

25 posted on 05/22/2025 6:14:33 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: T.B. Yoits

The greatest con job of the 20th century was Marxists convincing Whites it is morally wrong for Whites to love and support their race.


26 posted on 05/22/2025 6:16:27 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: T.B. Yoits

“Racism is not dead, but it is on life support - kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as ‘racists’.” - Thomas Sowell


27 posted on 05/22/2025 6:17:02 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: T.B. Yoits

“Our children and grandchildren may yet curse the day we began hyping race and ethnicity. There are countries where that has led to slaughter in the streets but you cannot name a country where it has led to greater harmony.” - Thomas Sowell


28 posted on 05/22/2025 6:17:35 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: T.B. Yoits

“The racist is annoyed because he secretly suspects that the races are equal. The anti-racist is annoyed because he secretly suspects that they are not.” - Nicolás Gómez Dávila


29 posted on 05/22/2025 6:18:54 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: T.B. Yoits

I know that racism is bad because all the races that hate my race told me so.


30 posted on 05/22/2025 6:19:35 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: MtnClimber

More proof the mental hospitals closed in the 1970s need to be reopened. Too many crazies now out on the streets. When closed, the mass murder rate took off like a rocket.


31 posted on 05/22/2025 6:21:57 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( )
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To: MtnClimber

32 posted on 05/22/2025 6:22:56 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: HombreSecreto

Is he near?


33 posted on 05/22/2025 6:39:01 AM PDT by ZOOKER
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To: MtnClimber

#9

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_That_Be_Your_Last_Battlefield


34 posted on 05/22/2025 6:48:00 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

ISWYDT


35 posted on 05/22/2025 6:48:49 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Magnum44

The sheriff is a WHAT?


36 posted on 05/22/2025 6:49:24 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: albie

“...but words just piss me off.”


37 posted on 05/22/2025 6:50:02 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: T.B. Yoits
“The racist is annoyed because he secretly suspects that the races are equal. The anti-racist is annoyed because he secretly suspects that they are not.”

Man, that is deep.

38 posted on 05/22/2025 6:59:11 AM PDT by spankalib
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To: MtnClimber

Everything a White says or does, or doesn’t say or doesn’t do, is liable to be called racist. This makes sense because the main goal of the left is eliminating Whitey.


39 posted on 05/22/2025 7:03:13 AM PDT by I want the USA back (America is once again GREAT! )
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To: dfwgator

That couldn’t be shown today.


40 posted on 05/22/2025 7:04:56 AM PDT by CletusVanDamme (You always said you'd take real good care of me, didn't you George. Here's one rap you won't beat.)
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