I agree. Please remove kids who think they can totally discredit someone by calling them "white" from my life. First, I'm Puerto Rican. I was raised in Southern California in a 6-person household with an income of $20,000 a year. (To put that in perspective: rent was always at least 2/3rds of that.) My father's side of the family is white. I was raised by my mother and her side of the family. My mother was the first generation in her family in the U.S.
Now, other than your idiotic statement about my color being completely off. Let's assume you were right; let's assume I was raised in a middle class, affluent, white family. Does calling me "white" discredit the argument I was making? No, it doesn't. Instead it redirects the conversation to my color. It's a fallacious form of arguing. And I think it's invalid under all circumstances.
I could easily go and argue against the post you randomly decided to reblog of mine from 3.5 years ago under the same misinterpretation as you read. But I wouldn't use ad hominems such as calling the author white to discredit it. That's simply intellectual laziness.
The post I made was about being practical, shaping arguments for things in terms that lawmakers will find more convincing. If a lawmaker doesn't believe she is racist by supporting an immigration bill, calling her racist isn't going to change her support. The argument I gave essentially goes as follows: 1) know your audience, 2) tailor the argument to best-convince the audience.
If you disagree with that form of conversing and convincing, then you're probably going to really hate the world. Politics sucks, yes. But different arguments are more effective on different people. If you don't take that into account, your communications are going to be lacking.
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