Quote Originally Posted by Detroitnerd View Post
Leaving Shabazz out of this, I'm just going to repeat the point to you in a slightly different way, hoping you will understand.

Have you ever heard that calling somebody a Nazi because they told you to go to bed has a way of diluting the horror of what the Nazis did?

Similarly, when you cry "OVERT RACISM" when somebody is handing out cookies as a stupid publicity stunt, you devalue the actual overt racism that is widely practiced in and an integral part of the history of the United States.

Please make a note of it.
Huge difference. Shabazz is being racist. The person telling the other person to go to bed is not a Nazi, presumably.

So you don't dilute the word "racism" by calling someone that is being racist, you know, "racist." Nor would you dilute the word "Nazi" if you called Herman Goering a "Nazi." It applies in both cases.