I really don't think the racists care if they are called racists.
Whether people are racists or not, politics functions by debating people's talking points, not their identities. If someone is talking racist crap, you point out why their racist crap is wrong, you don't do the lazy thing by shouting them down as a racist.
We need our racists in full view, in technicolor, saying their non-sensical garbage. That's how we call them out. But trying to shut them up by name-calling them only turns them into subversives. Then eventually we get what happened in Virginia... someone mowing down protestors in a car. The media plays into it 100% by not discussing the grievances. This is 100% how Trump won the election. The media called him every name in the book but didn't analyze how the establishment ignored the working class -- then the working class voted him in. Even NOW the media is still trying to paint Trump as a far right racist, while completely ignoring his power base!
That's something people like you will never understand.
It's getting to the point now that 9 times out of 10, when a discussion is happening, people won't debate the points anymore, they will just name-call in an attempt to put you in a camp. And once you're in that camp, the whole discussion is negated.
This is the #1 threat to our political system right now. Every level of the polity is doing it: the White House, Congress, the Media, the Universities, the Middle Class.
We are sinking into a lazy, arm-chair polity that doesn't want to spend time using critical thinking anymore. It's far simpler to just label someone as something and then completely ignore what they have to say.
And people wonder why anger is reaching violent proportions?
You can only call people liberal commies or right wing fascists for so long before they start responding with their fists. That's what happens when their grievances and perceived injustices never get aired properly. We are witnessing first hand what the beginning stages of the collapse of Democracy looks like. The government isn't doing it -- WE are doing it.
What the U.S. desperately needs right now is true justice on every single level, and for the polemic demagogues to shut their god damn mouths.
What's it going to take? Another Timothy McVeigh before people truly stop and ask, "Why? Why is this happening? What's turning people into such violent monsters? What did we do to deserve this?" Because that's where we are headed. We are a powerful, intelligent people deep down, and when we put our genius toward violence we accomplish true terrors.
It's going to take people ceasing their incessant desire to draw simple conclusions and look at broader problems. Our country is in BIG TROUBLE right now. Trump is not the reason, he is the SYMPTOM.