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by Timon3 1061 days ago
> In some places, it's "gay" if two guys hold hands.

Sure, but that doesn't mean those two guys are gay.

> On the racist bit: it can be hard to disambiguate why someone treats you in an unfavorable way -- it could be because they're actually racist or they could just be a pissy person who hates their job. Just because a person or group of people classifies you a certain way doesn't make it universally true.

It might not be universally true, but it is subjectively true. That's the difference: even if you think you're not being racist, you might be racist from the PoV of someone you were racist towards.

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Then it's an arguably arbitrary classification right? The borders seem potentially ill-defined and/or social in nature.
"Subjective" and "arbitrary" are not the same thing.