Raymond Davies of Payson, Utah provides an interesting example of the reflexive paradox in this tweet:
"@yintercept Any reference to a person's race is racist. Your noting the officer's and the person shot in this incident is blatant racism."
Racism is considered a negative.
Mr. Davies applies an absolute to a premise to create a self-reference to cast a negative.
In this logic one cannot ask if an incident, such as the shooting of Darrien Hunt, involved racism without being labeled a racist.
His statement is absurd. Racism refers to systematic judgments based on race and not on the existence of race. Aristotelian rejected all of the conclusions one draws from the reflexive paradox. Hegelian dialectics relishes in the reflexive paradox. You can inject the reflexive paradox in most arguments. Skillful dialecticians are able to use the paradox obfuscate and deflect arguments.
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