Race Relations...

Instead of saying 'shut the hell up' it's fashionable to say 'that's racist'. The fallacy lies in the fact that it's supposed to mean something as such, but if it were that big of a deal, like if you're talking to the grand-dragon-wizard, what could possibly be the point? It's a common failing of the civic-hero mindset, people assume they're the ones in the white hat all the time so however thick they can lay it on is fine.

I say all that to say this, people often say 'racist' when the item in question is 'racialist' or simply 'racial'. Don't matter right? If they can't dig screw 'em. But then the absence of a distinction means when folk are into their own team, for reasons that have no intrinsic philosophical/moral significance (such as would prevent the business of ridiculing the dead to be taken on face value), it ain't just what it is - it's either, in this case, he's a champion of the cause or he's a a no-good bigot. That's no big deal in and of itself, but some folk think theres something wrong with any kind of differential-ism between people, or that whether it's wrong or not depends, ironically enough, on who's doing the differentiating. You see what I'm getting at here? Folk putting on the horse-blinders and crucifix when it pleases 'em.

I mean, I consider myself to be nationalist about the US (as opposed, I guess, to nation-ist). There's some objectivity there, but there are other countries that are good for other reasons, so it's like, to be objective about one's subjectivity. That is, there are other countries, and I might not be clever enough to say, if I were part of the British Empire in 1900 to know America was really the main event, but if I'm going to do a good job of being me, I still got to do my own thing right? So buy the ticket, take the ride. I mean, let the French appreciate France, it's their specialty.