However, the conclusion that the racist's judgments are universalizable presupposes a very minimal account of what universalizability requires.
The very typeface forces shock on us: while invited to observe a fascinating clash of speech habits between generations, we are not permitted to make our own judgments about racist language.
Its chairman, John Tully, said: "Whilst we are pleased that this judgment recognises that racist and sexist behaviour is unacceptable and is capable of being challenged, it is of concern that such issues are still prevalent in the Metropolitan police service, despite the many measures introduced to address the problem".
It's a short step toward reversing the terms of judgment and arriving at racist theories like the one advanced by Wagner in his anti-Semitic essay "Judaism in Music".
Faced with calls for his resignation, a senior Italian senator insisted that it was "an aesthetic judgment, not meant to be racist," when he said that Italy's first black minister looked like an ape.
To his credit, Judge Cebull, who was nominated to the bench by President George W. Bush in 2001, admitted that the joke was racist and that he displayed "very poor judgment".
We wrote to [Uefa's president] Michel Platini and said when the world is watching and there is an outbreak of racist abuse, Uefa need to make a judgment call immediately".
Azmal Hussain, a petitioner who said he would have lost his Brick Lane businesses if they had lost the case, dismissed concerns that the judgment would be seen as racist.
Those arguments carried even more weight on the back of the decision on Tuesday considering that Croatia's fine – which they were given three days to appeal against once they receive the written judgment – was not only for racist abuse.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission accused him of failing to comply with a central London county court judgment ordering the removal of potentially racist clauses from his party's constitution.
