Not only was some of our reasoning explicitly racist, but in our desperate attempts to sound rational — by supposedly balancing the twin imperatives of security and liberty in the midst of World War II — we exaggerated the severity of the threat while failing to acknowledge the significance of revoking the most fundamental rights of American citizens based solely on their ancestry.
While some argue that fashion editors and publications are especially racist, Andre Leon Talley voiced a more complex reasoning.
Connolly cited his support for Smith-Pelly, who said in June that "the things that [Trump] spews are straight-up racist and sexist," and Holtby explained his reasoning as wanting to stick to his values.
I'll put aside the fact that broadcasting your distaste for an entire race, or multiple races, in the year 2017 is really dumb in addition to being racist as fuck, and just challenge the reasoning here head on.
By Katzenbach and Marshall's reasoning, the N.B.A. must be the most racist institution in America.
In an excellent recent post, co-blogger David Bernstein explains how both racists and many left-wing anti-racists make the mistake of falling into the trap of zero-sum economic reasoning: too often, they assume that one racial or ethnic group can only get ahead at the expense of another.
His comments hit all the formulaic benchmarks of the modern apology for being, or saying something, racist in the media: abject self-deprecation, noted honorable intention, semi-plausible reasoning and questionable contrition.
The reasoning simply being that surely America would not elect a person who was or alleged to be xenophobic, racist and/or misogynistic.
Jack M. Balkin's assault on the Supreme Court's decision on the Violence Against Women Act ("The Court Defers to a Racist Era," Op-Ed, May 17) provides an example of the modern legal academy's tendency to label any decision favoring limited government as racist rather than address its reasoning on the merits.
