Reply #362: I don't agree with you

[Donald Ian Rankin]

that "African Americans are quite able to determine who,is and who is not prejudiced"; at least not if, as I think, you are implying that their judgement in such matters is worth more than others.

I don't think that just because X is white and Y is black, Y's judgement about what is and isn't racism is ipse facto any better than X's.

There is a tendency to assume that all or most denials that a given attitude or person is racist are themselves signs of racism. I'm not accusing you of this, but I think you're going perilously far in that direction.

There was no racist material in the original post, and to say that "the kind of anger he showed was a red flag", although I do agree that the choice of alias is arguably an amber one. Accusing someone of racism because "I know his sort" is foolish, though, I think.