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Originally posted by Nationalist_Cause@Apr 17 2005, 09:06 AM
An interesting question. I'm inclined to say that everyone is racist, no matter how much they deny it. For example, one of the very first things one notices when meeting another person is their race. One immediately places this person into a racial category. If one is not able to clearly and quickly place somebody into a racial category, they get confused.
A crude and off the wall example of this is an episode of Seinfeld I often refer to when this question arises. Elaine meets a man who she believes to be black and dates him. A set of stereotypes comes to the surface. She takes him to Mexican restaurants, believing this is what black people like to eat. The "black" man believes she is hispanic because Elaine has the hair and skin tone to match his perception of what hispanic people are like. As it turns out, they are both white.
Now, in this example, one person does not believe they are better than the other. The point here is that race, whether socially constructed or not, is a part of everyone's lives. If you look at a person and say to yourself, "This person is black / white / asian" then you recognize race as a reality. You are, therefore, a racist.
Eh, that is NOT racism.