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you know, pan, there is a long string of posts that have responded to your opening move and that you seem not to feel moved to address here. the arguments converge on questions of political argument and the ways in which those arguments enable or make problematic a slide toward racist conclusions. the problem, then, really, lay in the type of arguments.
within that, you have ms media's post and baraka guru's, which you can line up against each other and use to pose questions to yourself and your relation to these arguments.
and then you have abaya's posts--which i am not sure i agree with exactly---but no matter, its more at the level of word choice than claim--(i agree with loquitor more about the term adjustment) that you could use to think about motive, and how yours might not be particular, but something that we all kinda share and all deal with in our own ways.
if the point of the thread was as you said it was, trying to work out *why* you find yourself making claims that are interpreted at racist on certain issues, i think you have your answer.
but you seem to want to dance a different dance.
i dont really understand what you are doing.
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