Reblogged:Why Democrats Keep Calling Dissenters “Racist” and What to Do About It

[Michael J. Hurd Ph.D.]

“They talk all the time about racists, racists,” said Donald Trump, referring to Democrats and self-described progressives. “The only word they know. They used it on [Mitt] Romney. They used it on everybody. They use it. When they are in trouble they always pull out the ‘racist’ word — and they are in very big trouble.”

And of course he’s right. Everyone who ever utters one world critical of Obama’s policies knows it. Everyone not voting for Hillary Clinton knows they’re called a racist. It’s not just because they’re voting for Donald Trump. They were called racists when voting for John McCain, or Mitt Romney.

Here’s a tip for handling the charge of “racist.” Whenever you’re called that word by a progressive, forget the rational meaning of the word racist. Everyone rational knows that a “racist” is someone who prejudges, or harshly judges, a person solely because of his or her race. That’s not what progressives mean when they call someone racist. When they call you a racist, what they’re really saying is, “I have no answer to what you’re saying. All I know is what you’re saying makes me uncomfortable. Because I don’t like being uncomfortable, and I choose not to disprove your point, I will call you the one name I expect will shut down conversation.”

Progressive leftists and Democrats think that by calling you a racist, you’re in a lose-lose position. Either you try to prove you’re not a racist, which makes you look defensive, and puts you in the logically untenable position of proving a negative; or you ignore the charge altogether, which they’ll seize upon as an excuse to claim, “See? See? You condone racism.”

The best way to respond to a charge of racism is to say, “Please explain where you disagree with my reasoning or my premises, calmly and without calling me a name.” It won’t happen, of course, because no such arguments are forthcoming. Have you ever heard one? I have not. The typical progressive-leftist feels entitled to hold his or her positions without even having to explain them. Shrieks of “racist! racist!” reveal a profound intellectual insecurity caused by positions without rational support.

Remember that Democratic leftism is essentially socialism. Socialism is force. It’s compulsion. It means putting you in jail if you don’t pay for the programs (schools, welfare, health care) that a progressives demands you fund. On the same premise, it eventually means putting you in jail for refusing to endorse the positions and ideas the progressives support. Yes, the pesky First Amendment still stands in the way of eliminating dissenters. “We have to get rid of the Second Amendment, and then we’ll get to the First Amendment,” think progressives. If you don’t believe me, then watch everything they do, particularly as the electorate gives them a lock on two branches of government, while Congress surrenders the rest.

Calling you a “racist” is a form of intimidation. Intimidation cannot work unless you allow it. It has no power unless you concede the attitude of the person attacking you. That’s the “psychology 101” for dealing with any bully. Progressives are, by and large, psychological bullies. They have nothing but mean-spirited name-calling on their side. It reveals their inherent intellectual weakness and insecurity. Place the onus on them to defend their use of force (confiscating guns, confiscating money, attacking police, destroying the economy, appeasing violent Muslims), and ignore their names. Remind them that socialism — their ideology — is force, and make them defend why the coercion of social engineering and wealth redistribution is justified.

Donald Trump, while not right about everything, is (unlike progressives) right about some important things, such as rebuilding the military, Hillary’s corruption and the need to smash ISIS. He does a pretty good job at lashing back at Democrats who call any and all dissenters “racists” and other horrible names, which is one of the reasons why Democrats and progressives are out of their minds with rage at the mere mention of him. A Republican who fights back? Why, that’s beyond uppity.

Intimidation and rage are the only tools progressives have. Socialism does not work economically, and it’s morally wrong because it imposes coercion on unwilling victims. Until Democratic progressives can do what all socialists have always done in the end — rid the culture of free speech — they will keep calling you names. They’re hoping they can scare you into shutting up before forcing you to shut up. My advice? Laugh in their faces and double-down on your positions, the First and Second Amendments most of all, because like all bullies they will (sooner or later) have to fold.

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