I am here, Don, to remind certain people over and over again, that they have no moral authority or right to judge other individuals (whom they are in dialogue with) or to make sweeping statements that sum up another individual whom they are in dialogue with as a "racist", a "bigot", a "sexist" or anything else like that.

We do not have the right or authority to pass that sort of judgement on other people when we're discussing something with them, in my opinion. Also, it inevitably derails the discussion and turns it into an ugly exchange attack/defence/counterattack.

I go by an ancient spiritual teaching, Don: "Judge not, lest ye shall BE judged (and found wanting)."

I say that not as a Christian, not as a Muslim, not as a Hindu or a Buddhist or a Pagan or indeed any other such designation, but as a free thinker who believes in the principles being expressed in that spiritual teaching.

We are not equipped to pass judgement on another human being, in my opinion, and we should resist the temptation to do so most strenuously. We never know enough about anyone else to be equipped to judge them in that fashion.

As for passing judgement on people's actions...well...that's another matter entirely. ;-) If I see someone taking an action that is destructive in some way, then I judge the action itself, and I deal with it accordingly (as does civil law). I do not pass judgement on the person but on what the person did or is doing.