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[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

If you want to use the word that way, no one can stop you, but I don't see any daylight between what you and I are saying. A specious attack on something antiracist is necessarily racist? Because it hurts the cause? So any that defends the racist status quo is racist? Sounds like bad Marxist thought. The police are racist, so a children's book with a benign depiction of a policeman must be racist, by your way of thinking. Again, you can use the word that way if you want to, but I don't get the point. And using it that way makes it harder to distinguish between different steps on a continuum between, say, Bull Connor, Trump's July 4 speech, Matt Taibbi's review, and that children's book. They're all racist.

You might call his position Orwellian. You'd be using the term based upon the poor extent of your knowledge of the man's work, but you might still use it.