There's an issue that crops up every once in awhile among the more "defensively" racist (by which I mean those racists who know that racism, as a concept, is wrong, but who still want to say racist things without being accused of being racist), and I seem to be seeing it more frequently since we got a uniformly Republican administration (to quote Bill Maher: "I always say not every Republican is a racist, but if you're racist and looking for a party..."). I'm talking about certain white people's attempt to justify their use of the N- word as "equalist", while -- wait for it -- accusing black people who object to their use of that word as the "real racists". Their logic goes thusly: "If black people can use the N- word to describe each other, I can too! And anyone who accuses me of racism for doing so is the real racist, because they're only picking on white people saying it."
