You say you are not a racist. I take this to mean that you do not have negative intentions towards other races. If so, good, I'm glad for that. However, my definition of racist is someone who, regardles of their intentions, makes generalizations about an entire race, ethnicity, or culture based on opinions about individuals who belong to that group. By that definition I am sometimes an unintentional racist, most people (regardless of their own race) are. The problem is that making these generalizations (and especially acting on them or stating them as legitimate in public) is hurtful regardless of the intentions. When I hear someone say "She was asking for a lot of money but I Jew'd her down to a better price" I don't assume that the person is intenionally racist against me (I am a Jew), but the statement still leaves me with a very unpleasant feeling. When one says all Arabs are terrorists, or all "insert any group here" are "insert any generalization here", one is behaving in a racist manner regardless of intentions.

By the way "Asian" does not refer to people of a particular culture or race, it is a purely geographic term. Other than "they live in or come from Asia", there is absolutely nothing that can be said to be in common between all Asians.

In reply to Re: Work in a poisoned environment by jZed
in thread Reaped: Work in a poisoned environment by NodeReaper

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