> Really? He can’t think of a statement that is racist when a white person says it and not a black person?
He can't think of a statement that is false when a white person says it and true when a black person says it (or vice versa).
He can't think of a statement that is false when a white person says it and true when a black person says it (or vice versa).
The quote in question is immediately after this paragraph:
> If you find yourself talking to someone who uses these labels a lot, it might be worthwhile to ask them explicitly if they believe any babies are being thrown out with the bathwater. Can a statement be x-ist, for whatever value of x, and also true? If the answer is yes, then they're admitting to banning the truth. That's obvious enough that I'd guess most would answer no. But if they answer no, it's easy to show that they're mistaken, and that in practice such labels are applied to statements regardless of their truth or falsity.
Which the quote about the variation of a statement is given as an obvious counter argument once someone has already said that x-ist statements cannot be true.
Are they really the same statement if they have two different meanings?