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Tom's avatar

Get a better editor? Get some folks to give you critical feedback on articles prior to submission?

You're writing in a world where too many people are actively doing bad takes, looking to distort and take out of context even the clearest writing. Even worse, they don't stop with the bad take, but instead often fabricate around the edges.

With this piece, you can guarantee that the woke will be forever telling people "He said nobody ever talked about racism until the 1960's" - they're not content to simply ignore your clarification and smear you with the worst take on what you originally wrote. No, they'll fell the need to distort it further, because only the most absurd takes seem to resonate with too many people these days.

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Sam McGowan's avatar

John, I am 75 years old and I do not remember the terms "racism" or "racist" being in common use until fairly recently when certain activists started using them as buzzwords. The words in the 50s-70s and perhaps later were "prejudice" and "racial prejudice." As far as racial, racism and racist, the words came about in the 1930s and referred to Hitler's policies in regard primarily to Slavs then later to Jews.

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