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Re:‘Culture wars’ are fought by tiny minority – UK study by LandR on Monday October 26, 2020 @10:37AM (#24896593)
If you declare everyone a racist then finding the actual racists becomes a much harder problem.

Firstly, if everyone is a racist then the word racist loses meaning. So when you have an actual racist and say this person is racist, it's meaningless. Everyone is racist.

Secondly, the amount of false positives will just be crazy high. How can this possibly ever work?

I don't know what they think they are achieving?

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Re:‘Culture wars’ are fought by tiny minority – UK study by eli_gottlieb on Monday October 26, 2020 @11:04AM (#24896914)
>I don't know what they think they are achieving?

They don't think they're actually hunting down people who hate others based on race. They're self-consciously building class power that serves themselves as individuals and the material interests of their class.

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