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In article <ok3dreax90.fsf@proline.sbc.man.ac.uk>, Phillip Lord
<plord@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk> wrote:

>>>>>> "Maynard" == Maynard Handley <handleym@ricochet.net> writes:
>
>  Maynard> In article <okln565sew.fsf@proline.sbc.man.ac.uk>, Phillip
>  Maynard> Lord <plord@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>  Maynard> Not so. There are plenty of cases where after enough cries
>  Maynard> wolf, people simply switch off. Once upon a time, it was a
>  Maynard> serious insult to be called a racist---now, there have been
>  Maynard> enough bogus claims that some person is racist for saying
>  Maynard> something someone else didn't like, that the supposed
>  Maynard> insult has become meaningless.
>
>        I cant comment on insults in your country. In mine however
>last year it was found that the Metropolitan police force (that is the
>police for London and therefore the biggest police force in the UK)
>was "institutionally racist" after they totally failed to investigate
>the brutal murder of a young man because he was black. People may have
>got inured to racism at times, but at the moment its a very big
>issue. 

The fact that SOME claims of racism are justfied doesn't mean that all (or
even the majority) of such claims are justified. For example consider the
issue of ebonics---is it racist for someone to state that teaching ebonics
to black kids rather than standard US English is simply confining them to
the ghetto? Or consider the "nappy hair" incident last year or so. There
are those who would call you racist for advocating that teenagers should
not get pregnant. You get bizarre situations where people like Alan Keyes
are called racist because they advocate points of view that don't match
those of some group of African- Americans.

Maynard