The TBL sticker is literally a declaration of one's tribe. Describing, accurately, the most common components of that tribe's views doesn't make me the tribalist.

No, but joining an opposite tribe where you assume everyone using one of those stickers is part of the "fuck black people, cops can do whatever" tribe is obviously being tribal.

It's part of a broader problem. If I hear "thug" used to describe black dudes, and say "that's a dog whistle", somehow I'm the racist for hearing the racist biases in the term.

This whole angle is your problem, not mine. You're the one who has brought it up twice in a row while I don't even think that's a relevant part of the conversation and already called it "a red herring".

I didn't fucking call you a racist or imply it in any way. If anything the first sentence of your first response was trying to imply that I am a racist trying to pull a switcheroo and pin the label on you.

So just fucking drop it, OK? Stop trying to have an argument with yourself and drag me into it.