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So I'm out of the loop. Are complaints about social justice warriors just a modern twist on "I'm not racist, but..."?

Not sure what you mean by that. If you are asking if they are a joke, a parody on real racists/sexists would say, then no. The complaints are serious. If you mean that people who complain about social justice warriors are really racists/sexists, well that's hard to answer, because it depends on one's definition of social justice warrior and one's definition of racism and sexism.

I think that people are now using overt racism and sexism as protest against Social Justice. Since a Social Justice Warrior will define anyone who doesn't agree with them as a racist or sexist anyway, people make it as obvious as possible because there is no escape. The only thing left is to piss them off.

I agree, although I find it to be a copout. It's like when someone is losing an argument so they say "oh, I'm not talking about morality, I'm just saying how the world is".

The task for anti-progressives is to deconstruct the progressive narrative. Just as anti-racists aims to deconstruct "Whiteness", we need to deconstruct "racism". That doesn't mean claiming racism is good, or racism doesn't exist, but rather showing that the way progressives conceptualize racism is wrong and exaggerated.

The inverse happens too. Racists and sexists define everyone who they don't agree with as Social Justice Warriors. Of course, neither end of the spectrum think that the corresponding label applies to them.

Since a ____ will ____. Do you not understand what is wrong with that? This whole SJW concept was made up by people who were being accused of being socially inept. Ie, sexist. Inept!

Yes.

Are the perspectives of racists not welcome here? No interest in the thoughts of Lee Kwan Yew and Nelson Mandela? I respect these schools of thought.

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