Overused Cries of Racism Make It Harder for Us to Unite

When a coin toss is deemed racist, the charge has lost all meaning.

John Fund, NRO

"Every time you think there’s nothing left, no area or topic, where race can’t be injected into the conversation, you’re wrong. An African-American skater on the U.S. Olympic team refused to attend the opening celebration because of the results of a coin toss that decided whether he or a white female skater would represent the United States at the ceremony. 

"The skater, Shani Davis, said the coin toss was “dishonorable,” even though it was the previously agreed-upon method for breaking a tie vote among U.S. athletes. Davis included the hashtag #BlackHistoryMonth2018 in his tweet along with a list of his accomplishments that he said should have made him the flag-bearer. It seems as if Davis is alleging the first racially motivated coin toss in Olympic history." . . .

There was a time when liberals recognized just how poisonous and conversation-ending a reckless charge of racism could be. John Bunzel, a Democrat who served on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, wrote that we should end the “corrupted usage” of the word “racist.” It breeds “bitterness and polarization, not a spirit of pragmatic reasonableness in confronting our difficult problems,” he wrote in 1998.

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Urban Dictionary discusses "racism" here:  . . . "A term that used to mean prejudice towards one or more races. 

"In modern use, this word is used by people to explain the behaviour of people of other races, whether race is called into the issue or not. 

"Also: racism can now also include having good race relations. If you try to be friends with someone of a different race, someone will call you a racist.

Me: Dude I met this black guy when I was... 
Idiot: RACIST!  . . .