mixedmedia

I'm not here to call out pan as a right-wing, reactionary racist. Believe me, I've seen them, talked to them, lived around them. I know from where I speak.

Although it can't be denied pan is highly reactive to issues of non-white race and culture, these issues usually being viewed as some kind of a threat to his own idea of 'American' culture and national 'pride.' pan may want to deny this and he can go right ahead. I think there is ample evidence right here on TFP to support my observation.

I don't necessarily think he has an agenda, which is what would most literally define a racist in my estimation, but I think he has issues with race that cause him to react in ways that could easily be interpreted as 'racist' in a colloquial sense. As we have seen in people's reactions to his posts in this thread previously and since.

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