TheOtherDave comments on Open Thread, May 1-15, 2012 - Less Wrong
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Your implicit assertion that hating other ethnicities is a necessary condition for meriting the label "racist" is not universally accepted.
Considering what a horrible can of worms the definition of that word is and that "racist" represents a strong political and debating weapon against any enemy, I think society would be much helped to adopt a rationalist taboo on it. Even LessWrong discussions would be improved by this I think.
Yeah, I'm inclined to agree.
Yeah, sure. I was going from the minimal (= most right-wing) definition still accepted in polite society today, because I don't want to hear someone complaining that leftists and postmodernists and Jews are overcomplicating things, or whatever.