Shower Epiphany: Don't be an Intellectual Coward: An argument in leaving behind the word "but"

Am I the only one who as soon as I hear the word "but" I'm think, "oh here it comes. Here comes the shit." I've come to realize that the word "But" is a cowardly and sneaky way of making a weak stand on a point why somehow stating a previous point that is either understood as the norm or as accepted then adding in almost crafty, like an assassin who drops arsenic into a drink drop by drop in a cowardly.....damn I can't think of a worse word than cowardly.....manner in hopes of poisoning that reason. Mind you it can be done for right or wrong such as...

I'm not racist BUT all black people need to take the bone from their nose and go back to Africa.

Compared to

That lynching sounds like fun BUT perhaps we don't kill and maim other people due to some primitive and assigning reason?

See....cowardly.

I would rather see. "I'm a racist AND you people are garbage"

Boom! That is a statement. And so much pride! You mean what you just said. You came out and fought for your thought rather some passive bitch way of sneaking past moral insult as if that is the main problem here. I can respect that. Fine. You are a racist. I can respect you, even if you are a piece of shit. See? My statement works too! I didn't say, I can respect you, BUT you are a piece of shit. That inclines that I lied or am dishonest about my thoughts. Here I say, I respect you, you piece of shit!

Seriously people. Free yourself from the shackles of BUT! Free you mind and stand tall on you thought's merit and be brave to say what you mean without being an intellectual coward.....see....coward just works so well.