It's not a “hot take” at all, it is like the official of the GOP, and have been so for quite some time.
Actually it is a pretty common trope from concervatives talking about anti-racism. For instance in France this argument dates at least since the 80s (your sentence is almost an exact translation of a bullet point in the agenda of the Front National in 1986 (far right and Holocaust deniers, cofounded by a former waffer SS French volunteer, by the way), which changed name to Rassemblement National and grew to become the second most powerful political party in France).
Indeed I didn't, for good reasons[1] my comment was
aiming at the claim that this commonplace was a “hot take”.
[1] it's not even an argument to beging with, it's a cheap attempt at decredibilizing the opponent with an inflamatory comparison. You wouldn't lose time to discuss the claim that “conservatives are nazis” or anything like that would you? If you're genuinely interested in an intelligent discussion about that slogan, just search on your favorite search engine: many people have actually discussed it in depth and showed how stupid it is (which is something I deeply admire, since Brandolini's law is very real).
So you've used two tactics now: 1) try and smear people who make this statement by saying "bad people" use it too and now 2) saying that the statement is so "clear false" that it's not even worth trying to refute.
Color me skeptical.
And i would certainly refute that "conservatives are Nazis" is someone made that statement. It's pretty easily falsifiable.
> And i would certainly refute that "conservatives are Nazis" is someone made that statement. It's pretty easily falsifiable.
Yet you didn't bother to do it.
> Can you falsify the OP's statement?
Well, pretty easily given that a big fraction anti-racist intellectual and activists are actually white people. Black and white dudes working together on something sounds pretty far from “regular racism”. You can criticize anti-racists actions or arguments all you want (for instance I'm really not fond of affirmative action) but calling them racist is just dumb. And I don't really think that anybody in good faith on this kind of forum (with mostly folks with higher education) can sincerely believe it.
Actually it is a pretty common trope from concervatives talking about anti-racism. For instance in France this argument dates at least since the 80s (your sentence is almost an exact translation of a bullet point in the agenda of the Front National in 1986 (far right and Holocaust deniers, cofounded by a former waffer SS French volunteer, by the way), which changed name to Rassemblement National and grew to become the second most powerful political party in France).