===racism is the traditional weapon on the right===

Precisely as true, Jim, as the assertion that the traditional weapon on the left is to shriek "racism" whenever one is getting the worst of any argument.

You decide how true that is -

~~ bearing in mind however,please, the agreement you expressed on my "catchall" thread; one point of which, NB though, was that the technique had spread out from the political left as a means to be used by anyone to undermine any opponent; I started with an example of precisely such a tactic resorted to by a footballer who had been called an "Italian bastard" ~~ neither element of which, however offensively intended, could possible be described as racist in any viable definition.

~M~