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Typical racist.

Care to address the parent's postulates, rather than calling names?

It's so bad on so many levels that it is actually difficult to respond. Literally don't know where to begin or end.

But, your parent summed it up nicely. It's not just name-calling. It's a concise description of the thinking and attitudes that would produce such a misguided comment: pure racism.

kamau is not calling anyone a name, they are correctly categorizing the parent post. The parent post is typical of the type of post that is written by racists. That is not name calling, that is the act of categorizing. If you give me a box full of cats and squid, and I pull out a creature that only has 4 legs, and I say "Typical cat" I'm not insulting the cat, I'm simply correctly separating it from the squid.

Whether referring to the post or the poster, the comment is vapid.

So if an argument is used by racists everyone else that uses it is racist, no matter how sound the argument is?

| If you give me a box full of cats and squid, and I pull out a creature that only has 4 legs, and I say "Typical cat" I'm not insulting the cat, I'm simply correctly separating it from the squid.

Now try it by changing squid to white and cat to black and see if you still think it's a good argument.

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