When I say "racist" you say...
Do me a favor, folks.
When I say "racist" don't assume I use it as a synonym for "white folks." When I say "white racist" don't assume that's a synonym for "white folks" either. And when I say "white folks" don't assume that's a synonym for "racists"…though you shouldn't assume they are being left out either.
This comes up because of a theme I'm considering. You know I sometimes get a bug up my ass about focus on a specific topic for a week or so. Well, recently the idea of writing up Earl's Rules for Dealing With Mainstream Types, or something similar occurred to me. I've pretty much decided against making a project of it but I've also come to recognize I'll inevitably write SOMEthing on any topic that I declare I'm not touching. So stuff is very likely to leak out and I'm not likely to want to deal with assumptions about my morality.
