>> I wouldn't want to accuse anyone here of lacking originality or not being able to
>> think for themselves or being deep down closet racists.
The trouble is AC.
Your statement above could easily have some element of truth in it..and equally so, for some, it will be not be so....i.e. the thinker coming from the alternate angle to you might well just be querying the positive only attributes given to Mandela that ignore the negative...(as opposed to subliminally or openly not liking him for race reasons).
...then when you bung in the unthinking or unpleasant who start from your angle and who shout 'racist' at the first hurdle to counter act any kind of alternate thinking or view point to them...
....it all gets complicated.
Personally, I think those that deliberately shout others down by unnecessarily using the race card (whether knowingly or not) are as bad as the out and out racists...because they prevent free speech and add to the ongoing problems in society by suppressing free thinking decent people who don't like it.
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