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> You should think carefully about why you're so desperate to disingenuously downplay the effects of racism on modern attitudes

Yes, because if you think something isn't caused by racism, then you must be racist.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Kafkatrap

I don't see any sign of desperation or disingenuousness in the reply, but that's probably because I'm an unconscious racist too.

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He misrepresented the article. It does not claim that racism 'explains everything', merely that it was one of a number of factors which have led to the demonisation of MSG. That was a disingenous attempt to erase the effects of racism through ridicule.

The article provides no evidence that racism had anything to do with it. It links to a social history "study" which simply asserts it based on the existence of racism. It is disengenous to assume racism when there is no evidence of it being a causal factor.

Additionally, the implication in the comment I replied to was that the commentor must have hidden motivations, probably racist ones, for denying the influence of racism. That is a piece of obnoxious mind-reading that stifles reasonable dialogue.

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