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Racism is big these days.  When in doubt, call your opponent a racist.  It seems to work every time.  The classic forms have a color value, black, brown, red, and yellow.  In fact, racism has grown in scope.  Now we see systemic racism (police), implicit racism (employment), media racism (communications), symbolic racism (narrative) and implied racism (political).  Don’t forget compound forms such as implicit xxx racism, where xxx is a color.  Occasionally, when the term racism wilts from overuse, the word bias is temporarily substituted. 


I really cannot see any end of it, no matter what policies are enacted, and no matter who is elected.  As long as there are votes to be gained under the branding by racism, it lives. Any group feeling itself suffering from racism becomes a voting block, among the most cherished commodities in election politics.  Have no fear whatever, academics and politicians will create new forms of racism as needed.  I can see intuitive racism, economic racism, and even electronic racism coming along soon.
How about political racism?  Sounds good but whatever can it mean?  Doesn’t matter. 

Clinton calls Trump a racist regularly.  I would not be surprised to hear Trump calling Clinton a sustaining racist, meaning she maintains an atmosphere of race bigotry as a tool.  


This short piece will be called satirical racism.  Doomed am I. 


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