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Originally Posted by spence
There really has to be a negative connotation for it to be racist, it's not so literal.
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Not necassarily, I think if you have preconceived ideas about someone based on the color of their skin you are being racist.
Once you put a negative connotation with it then you are being a racial bigot.
I joke around about the sexist thing the same way, if someone assumes that my wife does something because she's the woman I always call them on it...
Say you go to a cookout at a new neighbors house.....The neighbor's wife comes up to you and says "Tell your wife that the Souffle she made was just divine"
And you say "Well, actually I made it" and she says "Really...I just assumed...."
Isn't that her being sexist, she assumed that it was the woman that did the cooking.....and I'd bet you'd be a little put off about it....even though she didn't mean anything by it.
just food for thought....plus I'm bored