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You're just making stuff up. The term is not 'racially charged language' - that's total nonsense.
It is a historic term that white AMericans used to dismiss Russian criticisms of US race relations. The term depended on white people not understanding that our persecution of blacks really was a political act, just like persecuting dissidents.
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So, yes, by using it, you are adopting the viewpoint that lynching black people was not a political act.
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No. You do realize there's a ton of language Americans use all the time w/o realizing the racist subtext out of which the language arises?
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whataboutism is not an example of this
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You're right. When Russians raised lynchings to dismiss US criticism and Americans blew that off bc lynchings were acceptable that wasn't racist at all.
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That doesn't mean that every invocation of this concept is inherently racist. What are you trying to pull here?
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I'm trying to get people to realize that the historic evolution of the term involves white people being perfectly okay with lynching.
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It's also worth considering that if we had actually SOLVED the race problem the Soviet Russians harped on, we wouldn't have Trump.
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I get you're struggling to understand this. But maybe try reading a bit?https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/whataboutism-what-about-it/2017/08/17/4d05ed36-82b4-11e7-b359-15a3617c767b_story.html?utm_term=.db28c548607f …
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did you manage to finish school reading as poorly as you're currently exhibiting?
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