The very first thing one learns in a university level anthropology class is that there is only one race: The Human Race. That's it! That's all you really need to know. We all come from the same place and are all made of the same stuff.
There are people from different cultures, of different colours and creeds, with differing proclivities but they are all Human. Race is a word used to divide - even when it is used by well-meaning liberals.
So it follows that there can be no such thing as racism, unless of course you have a strong dislike for people from other planets, who I'm sure are avoiding our ignorant little world like it was the universe's trailer park.
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What we call racism is culturalism or xenophobia. It is fear and it is ignorance.
I've always felt, and it's in my stand-up act, that calling someone a racist empowers that person. It's a weapon he brandishes proudly and carelessly. This word does more harm than the word nigger - which, for all it's historical weight, says more about the person using it than the person it is directed at.
Someone who believes that the colour of his skin makes him/her different or better is an ignorant fool, and that's how they should be named. So that when we read about the KKK or other such organizations in newspapers or hear them spoken of, they would not be referred to as a band of racists, but what they really are: mean, hate-filled ignoramouses.
Substitute those words for racist in every news broadcast you ever heard and it sounds so much different.
Race, racist and racism are words that legitimize stupidity.