# Normal is the new abnormal -- forbidden adjectives

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 9, 2021, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/normal-is-the-new-abnormal-forbidden-adjectives/937554 "2021-03-09T22:19:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![DemonTree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demontree/32/8646_2.png) [@DemonTree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DemonTree)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2021, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/normal-is-the-new-abnormal-forbidden-adjectives/937554/263 "2021-03-16T15:07:54Z")

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> [@MrDibble](#):
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> No. It’s not like affirmative action, where you’re giving PoCs privileges for historic injustice. In this case you’re giving them just for the colour of their skin.

That’s exactly what anti-racism is. If each group isn’t equally represented, they need to be given privileges until they are. It doesn’t matter if it’s due to historic injustice or not, it’s axiomatic that inequity = racism and requires affirmative action to fix.

> [@MrDibble](#):
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> Alternatively, _by your own logic_ , if it is anti-racist, then it at least “Strongly resembles” racism, anyway.

Yes, I agree. It _would_ be racist to allow more latitude for POCs to break the rules, and I’m not proposing any such thing.

> [@MrDibble](#):
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> We all know why they left. They were not a majority of, or even a plurality of, the PoC on this board. You can’t extrapolate from them to other PoCs just to suit your tired argument.

I was also thinking of **Bone** , who gave his reasons for leaving in a post (and it wasn’t racism), and **Damuri Ajashi** , who hasn’t actually left, but certainly dialled back his posting a lot.

But like I said, I can easily believe things were different in the past when racism was more tolerated.

[@everyone](https://boards.straightdope.com/groups/everyone) else, no it isn’t just about one issue. Everyone knows that most of the posters who don’t subscribe to prevailing ‘progressive’ view have either been banned or got fed up and left. I’m arguing that posters who do subscribe to that view are more likely to be white, which is a reasonable hypothesis that has some evidence in it’s favour.

> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#):
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> This is a pretty important point to pull out: to the extent–the _only_ extent–that I’ve seen **Demontree** express any concern over racism

That’s probably because you haven’t read the threads on woke racism in schools.

And yeah, this has gone wildly off topic. I’ve had to take several breaks myself and I regret ever posting. I’m fucking tired of typing one thing and having people claim I’m saying something completely different, and interpreting everything I say in the worst possible light. This is tribalism, where you can’t understand that there’s room for more than two views. Everything is Them or Us, and We’re good and perfect while They are evil. I’m not playing any more.

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