[JumpCrisscross]

> it is instead textbook xenophobia, so your comment is mostly just an annoying pedantic correction

We're in the midst of a backlash to reducing the word racism to a banal definition. Let's learn from it.

Karp's statement is xenophobic, jingoistic and bigoted. It's worded to not offend racists, because we have a lot of them in government right now. But it's not racist per se, and will be found agreeable by many non-racists in a non-racist way.

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Quite honestly I do not care about the feelings of anyone who self-identifies as xenophobic and is offended at being called racist or vice versa. Bigotry is bigotry and bigotry of any form shouldn't be tolerated, excused, or empowered.