The character responding to the question says:
"Listen... I got nothin' against 'em!! I sat next to one in 2nd grade!! My uncle hates 'em, but he has a good reason to: he got robbed by one when he was younger!! I'm fine around one or two.. but any more give me the heebie jeebies!! I wouldn't let my daughter marry one. Their kids would be confused!!"
The implication is that people that use the word "socialist" are racist.
If one believes this, one can avoid any actual discussion of statism, because one equates the political discussion with racism. There is no need to engage with someone that calls you a racial epithet, so you can dismiss them as idiots.
However, the premise is wrong. Calling someone a "socialist" is not the same as using a racial epithet.
Friedrich Engels was an Aryan. Nancy Pelosi is a rich old white lady. Michael Moore is a rich white fat man.
They all have socialist ideas. Asking them about those ideas is not racist. If one attempts to avoid the discussion by crying "racist," one is either immersed in the victim mentality or is intellectually dishonest.
Both of these choices, of course, are symptomatic of the left.
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