racializes

It was an incident that encapsulated everything that I hate about the paranoid multiculturalism in this country - a flawed system that racializes every aspect of public and private life, right down to one's thoughts.

Because I don't want to have to spend my whole life explaining what I actually meant by what I said. Fathorse 2009

The phrase "celebrated black novelist and academic" racializes literature and learning.

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The phrase "attacking one's own more harshly than any outsider would" racializes controversy and lumps together all members of a group in a demeaning, reductive fashion, as well as perpetuating the notion of an uncrossable racial line dividing "outsiders and insiders."

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The phrase "you dishonor the real victims of racism" racializes human suffering by suggesting a hierarchy of suffering.

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The phrase "specter of lynching" (lynching is your word, not mine) racializes violence.

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The phrase "no bottles of Chateau-Lafite have yet become strange fruit" racializes symbolism and metaphor by suggesting no semantic parallel, no shared threat of evil intent, no equally dire consequences, no potential for nationality-baiting to escalate dangerously.

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The phrase "no white writer could get away with your charge" racializes criticism.

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The phrase "race is something we are all born with" racializes biology and human nature.

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The phrase describing American foreign policy "there has always been a moral dimension to our talking about such matters, and this is part of our national identity" racializes nationality.

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The phrase "if your feud with Powell were between Jews, my dead uncles would be clucking, self-hatred, self-hatred" racializes disagreement between members of minority groups as well as trivializing a group's self-critical capacity.

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