People abuse the word "racist"

[Normchacho]

hershel_layton said:

Normchacho said:

Of course it does. The vast majority of people are perfectly capable of going about there daily lives without being mean and nasty to one another that vast majority of time.

There are still many  people who don't know how to carry out a rational conversation without using "I'm offended" or "that's (blank)" as a cop-out argument.

I would argue that most people aren't having serious political arguments on a regular basis. I'd also argue that not being a particuallarly good debater doesn't make someone a bad person or mean that they don't know how to be nice to one another.

Plus, if we're worried about "that's offensive" or "that's racist" being used as cop-out arguments...I'd say that they simply get thrown onto a pretty big pile.