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today's racial debate. And that simple truth is that if you are on the side of the angels,

you can do or say whatever you want, you can be as racist as you could possibly want to be and you will survive. But if you hold the wrong positions, you don't have to be racist in order for you to be clocked about the ears. And if we don't know, if we're just not sure where you are, then we'll cudgel you about the ears until you declare that you are on the side of the angels. That is the way that this particular debate works.

If you are not on the side of the woke, well, you don't have to be racist in order for them to

declare you racist and just go after you. If you're in the middle, you're kind of neutral,

nobody said anything. And then evidence comes out that you may, in fact, not even be racist,

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