The Importance of Reinforcing Moral Rightness in an Interaction

"The most important thing to mean me to do in this moment is derail whatever conversation or point I was making," he says. "None of the, you know, none of the valid defenses that you would have against this charge will matter anyway." The answer an interaction where somebody is accusing you of being racist is normally it'll be in the context of something else and they're not going to continue arguing what you want to argue. They're just going to default back to racism.