“Paternal racist” is simply a term so you can admit you’re racist, required for many of his debate positions, while simultaneously saying “but I’m not a jerk about it!”.
Oh, and I thought of where Slacker “prescribed” how blacks would be better off. In his Why doesn’t some rich Dem move blacks where we need them to vote thread he said more than once that it’s for their own good as well and when someone suggested some equally silly population move, mentions how black Mississippians couldn’t handle living in North Dakota. I remembered it because he tried the same deflection trick there.