| I disagree with that definition of racism. Racism is the application of social traits, be they positive or negative, across an ethnicity of people, with little to no concern for the individual. Stating something about African Americans along with fried chicken or watermelon is racist. Assuming, that because someone is black that they must like this is racist. In my case, it was the said assumption that "brown and black all suck the test of welfare". The unstated assumption was that they were all lazy, and "us poor working whites" should have had access to it. Racism also goes into "positive traits" too. Stating,"Well you're Asian, so you must be good at math." Is also racist. In the same light, but if we talk of Men or Women, its roughly the same but called Sexist. Instead of making a decision based upon racial generalizations, its sexual generalizations. |