On X there are lots of posts that try to sell racism disguises as either Christianity or some other nonsense. Not even Elon Musk is safe from it, as he regularly talks about suicidal compassion, which fundamentally boils down to abandoning apartheid and giving South Africa to ANC was a mistake. Its not too hard to understand why they do so. Racism is not something socially acceptable in modern society so disguising it into something that is socially acceptable like religion seems like a smart move.
Despite of the above, I would argue that fundamentally it's better to be honest and call spade a spade. If problem is black people and what they do, then say it straight, do not blame it on atheism or Islam or pretend it's about saving Christianity.
To really solve the problem one should name its real source. Any euphemism distracts from the issue at hand. Take Musk's 'suicidal compassion' for example, it's a too broad of a term that can affect far too many people aside from the actual problem you are trying to address. For example, it will be compassionate to help homeless people, poor people or people who suffered from natural disasters like hurricanes. Anyone can become homeless or suffer from a hurricane, white, Asian, Latino, not just Black. When you say compassion is suicidal, does that mean these people should not be helped? Even if do not mean it this way, it can be interpreted this way. This puts these people at risk in danger of being abandoned under the doctrine on 'no compassion'. No one wants to be left behind. So, if your vague definition leaves the door open to anyone personally being abandoned, this person will not support your ideas. Suicidal compassion leaves the door open to just this problem as with definition this vague anyone can be abandoned at any time.
Christianity is even worse than that. It leads towards pointless debates with atheists about theology while the real problem is being ignored. Opposition to Islam is no better, sure Palestinians are Muslims but so are Emiratis. Saying all Muslims are bad means those who build Dubai are bad too. No one in their sane mind will ever agree with you on that, aside from barracks communists who like to replicate Pol Pot experience, hardly an ally a 'Christian' wants.
That is why the problem has to be named directly. Accusation of racism will come, but they do come already over Islamism. They would have to be braved, faced and argued back, not cowardly dodged by saying you are 'saving Christendom' or 'compassion is bad'. You have to stand and argue that certain socio-ethnic groups are detrimental to wellbeing of society and have to be delt with.
Do not just call them 'black' either as that too is too generic and too many will fall under this definition for it to ever succeed. If anything, you have to narrow the problem down as much as possible. Doctor cannot help you if you cannot explain what exactly hurts, police cannot find a culprit if you can only describe them as 'someone', you have to get into specifics if you want to eighter of them to be able to do anything about your problem.
There are billion Muslims all over the world, but there are but a handful of Hamas members. If you narrow it down to Hamas members and sympathisers only, then you can get people on your side. There are even more people you can call black, but there are only handful of criminals among them, if you can narrow it down to just these, then you can actually solve the problem. For example, in South Africa's case, instead of arguing in favour or apartheid, argue that ANC is corrupt and should be removed from power due to corruption, not because they are black, that way even some black people will be on your side and anti-racist posse will not be able to do much. Something more specific can be done about African American problem, I am not American, so I do not know how specify them further.
Hitler too did not label all black people as subhuman. Nazi racial theory went with a fine comb, selecting but few targets where one could argue about actual issues with these particular groups of people. He managed to rally most of Europe and more to his cause with his clever approach. If he would not target Jews, he might have got away with it too. Nazi racial theory should be studied in details and ideas from it used to argue causes for or against any particular socio-economic group.
Finally political views can also be used to target people. Communists support a lot of policies that are reprehensible for majority of people. If you will manage to successfully decouple them from people who want to provide welfare for citizens, you can successfully rally people against the red menace too.
There is smart way to approach issues or problematic people and generalising them is not it. Instead, one must be as specific as possible. Only then you will be able to successfully argue about necessity to address the issue these groups cause.
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