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In reply to the discussion: Constantly referring to President Obama as a "used car salesman" is expected of a RW racist. [View all]whopis01
(3,514 posts)I'm not arguing one side or the other or accusing anyone of being racist - just trying to explain some of the confusion in the argument.
Calling someone "stupid" isn't racist. The term "stupid" is not racist. However, calling someone stupid because of their race is racist.
The argument in the OP was that using a derogatory term when referring to Obama is something that would be expected of a RW racist. And I would agree with that. I would expect that a racist would use derogatory terms (not necessarily always racist terms) to refer to the president.
However I would not agree that anyone who used a derogatory term for Obama was a racist. And the OP never made that claim either. What they did, in my opinion, was carefully word their post to make it appear that was what they were implying while preserving a logical escape route for themselves. I believe it was posted as a trap designed to get readers to make a simple logical error and bait them into an argument over it.