prokopetz:

Even beyond the naked bigotry that almost invariably motivates such practices, the difficulty with trying to “call out” an entire visible minority is that it’s trivially easy to construct a problematising identity for literally any group. Like, I could call out people who wear hats, and it’d be just as credible as calling out whatever group is on the hate machine’s shitlist this week. I have actually seen dead-serious callout manifestos – in academic settings, no less! – aimed at men with beards, and you absolutely could not tell the difference.