Racism clearly alive and thriving here in Wisconsin.

I think the over saturation of being called racist by everyone for every thought and constantly hearing the litany of "you're priveleged" has finally resulted in the tuning out of the words racist and racism. At some point people when saturated with daily name calling and villification especially when they don't consider their deeds or actions to justify the tirades just plain tune it out.

just think what the people that really get called the names feel — like n_ _ _ _ r?

Or the ones that drive or even walk while black or brown.

Yeah it's tough being that privileged.

If you are on the receiving end, being called racist, there is probably a reason for that.

Clearly, being called a racist is far worse than doing/saying racist stuff.

I guess someone is just pining for the good old liberal days where MY words/actions were more important than how you were affected by them.

Wait ...

Leaves me shaking my head everytime

Unfortunately, some people really do take things too far. I know for a fact that I've been on the receiving end of false accusations on occasion(speaking more in a general sense though it's happened here a couple of times, unfortunately) and let me tell you, it's not fun to have to deal with that.

Rather than pause to consider why you may have been on the receiving end of the claim, you just play the victim. Right?

It's those people making me be racist!

"I had to beat her! she kept calling me a woman beater because I beat her."

Come on, nowww ...

I really hope you will read this:

http://immasmartypants.blogspot.com/2013/12/how-white-liberals-shut-down.html

and follow the embedded links ... but I know you won't.

Wouldn't everyone's life be ever so much better if people would just keep whistling past the graveyard the way 'polite' society has always demanded? If nobody says anything about it, nothing exists.

Being confused with actual racism.

Don't you think that racists and racism is a bigger problem than how hurt racists are by being called out on it?????? Tirade????????? Pooooooor little racists. I have white privilege and I didn't have to do anything to get it. The only time it sort of disappears is if I am in the company of a minority.

Just for the fun of it. Google "racist attacks on blacks" or "racist white attacks on blacks". Use any search engine you want.

Do you think these results make sense?

If anyone is "tuning out" racism because of being confronted with the truth of it-- it simply proves the point of the article.

And of course you are white.

Though, to be honest, I honestly feel that much of this most recent fringe-left extremism actually has its roots in the discontent over the Bush v. Gore debacle and the eight years of tragedy and bullshitting that followed.....including the rather strong resurgence of the hard-right in mainstream politics(which seems to have peaked with the Tea Party).....and made worse by the GOP's insistent blocking of just about every damn thing Obama has wanted to do or try, not to mention the "Marxust Kenyun" and "secret Islamofascist jihadi who hates white people" nonsense on top of that.

To be fair, it certainly doesn't excuse things like Suey Park's Twitter meltdown, or the assholish attacks on Ani DiFranco over that concert last year, for damn sure. But again, this didn't all just start overnight. Every problem has a root cause.

We can look to our "own' space here at DU to see just how true that is . Certainly not most of DU, but there is a sizable minority of racism deniers. Coincidentally, they often are the sexism denier's, as well.

Of course, it depends on what your definition of "denial" is in that regard.....if we go by the commonly accepted(amongst all ethnicities, btw, not just "white" people)definition, then such people are rarer than hen's teeth on DU.

It depends on your definition of racism.

I remember a nightline or 20/20 segment about racism. Same stupid crap about black people being lazy or on welfare, etc. Then the group of white people were asked how much money they would need if they woke up black. All of them said they would need millions...because of racism. The disconnect is staggering.