Rex Kerr
1 min readApr 25, 2023

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I used quotes around "woke" for a reason. I also defined what I meant by it at the end. I also didn't talk about values at all.

The distinction you're trying to use the NIH's definition to make (the National Institute of Health is obviously the clear arbiter of colloquial usage of English among people of different political leanings) is at least sometimes lost on people actually reading ACLRC: https://stopracebasedhate.ca/racist-comments/this-is-racist-against-white-people/

Ari Shapiro, who is prominent enough to matter, doesn't follow the NIH definition at all--his is completely consistent with "racist means supporting racism": https://www.npr.org/2020/06/09/873375416/there-is-no-neutral-nice-white-people-can-still-be-complicit-in-a-racist-society

That's kind of important if you're going to doubt MediaVSReality's account of his own experience of what it's like to interact with that subset of the left.

My text speaks for itself pretty clearly: I gave four quotes, three of which literally use the word racist. And yet you say "even the ones you found were simply misinterpreted by you because you did not understand the vocabulary". No, that's not what's happening, and anyone paying attention can tell.

Would you care to set up an experiment, if we can do so in a way that doesn't violate Medium's terms, wherein a "white man" posts as a reply to an anti-racist author's story, text that includes an account of racist action by a black person against the poster, and see what kind of language policing we might observe? Which might shed light on what MediaVSReality claims to have experienced?

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Rex Kerr
Rex Kerr

Written by Rex Kerr

One who rejoices when everything is made as simple as possible, but no simpler. Sayer of things that may be wrong, but not so bad that they're not even wrong.

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