If everyone's a racist, no one is
I'm a "racist" for mocking people who call Obama "articulate". Biden's a racist for calling Obama "articulate". I guess snow is racist just for being white.
Russell Wardlow writes:
"But regardless of Biden himself, his words ran afoul of the fact that statements about minorities (particularly blacks) are not subject to plain meaning or natural reading analysis in the nightmarishly absurd theater of public life. Instead, a type of strict scrutiny applies, whereby any discussion of race, or of any individual with a racial identity (this of course excludes whites, who have no racial attachment; their only association is with racism), undergoes the most searching, aggressive intepretation in favor of finding some kind of racist tinge. Anything that rises to the level of direct criticism of individuals of a particular racial group is ipso facto proof that the speaker has a closet of white robes.
"This, more than anything else, is why the idea of an Obama presidency makes me nauseated. Every time he gets criticized (and sometimes when he's complimented) will be another occasion to agonize over the possibility of latent racism in the remark. Thus the well of public discourse will be even more poisoned than before."