naive Wrote:Accepted beliefs about races not based on fact or logic is a pretty good example of racism. Most racist ideas are based on broad generalizations of narrow sample groups. Claiming that something isn't racist because it is a generalization is poor logic as the two are almost always mutually inclusive.

I'm going by the definition of racism as

Quote:Racism is the belief that inherent different traits in human racial groups justify discrimination.

It fails the factor that you're using this to justify discrimination. If you there is no discrimination nor attempt to justify discrimination it shouldn't be considered racism.

That's the wikipedia definition. Shockingly Wikipedia is nowdays not regarded as a bad source of information.

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But let's take Miriam Webster

: a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race
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: racial prejudice or discrimination

Again, the statement fails this test as well.