Words matter. Meanings of words matter. Exactitude of speech and writing matters.
You can tell that most of the people throwing the word "racist" around (also homophobe, misogynist, sexist, privilege) don't really know what the word means.
Critical Theory believes that anybody who is "white", or who refuses to acknowledge the existence of SYSTEMIC racism (no one is seriously discounting individual examples of prejudice), or who will not disavow or apologize for their "whiteness", or fully embrace the godless Black Lives Matter political movement, is a racist and a white supremacist. To these people, you are literally evil incarnate, because you were born evil, if you are "white". They make their hatred of men, and the fair-skinned, and Christians, and heterosexuals very clear.
There is a word for people like this.
bigot: one who is strongly partial to one's own group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of those who differ.
- American Heritage Dictionary
They are bigots.
So when people start in with their hatred or disdain for "whiteness" or "white people", or any grouping of people deemed evil by this new religion of critical theory, it is acceptable to call them what they are.
They are bigots.
It's a way to dehumanize their opponent.
Once you've been dehumanized, it's easier to kill you.
You forgot "monopolize the ability to label people/things/organizations a Nazi so you're the one deciding who gets punched".
That’s why you see leftists celebrating deaths of conservatives where the reverse never, ever happens.
They think conservatives are evil, we think they’re stupid and ignorant. We do meme that they are demons and etc etc but when it all comes down to it, liberal voters are fucking stupid and make emotionally charged decisions instead of rational ones. They are not fit to make tough decisions, it’s in the wiring of their brains.
And their laying claim to scientific thought is laughable. Since when was emotion and hypocrisy and changing goalposts the scientific method?
Thank you for mentioning the scientific method! So much of their “science” exists at the hypothesis level and never makes it through the proper steps. This is shit we learned in grade school. Academia is fucked
Which is funny, because communists aren't human.