Reply #44: Eh. I think that's probably a mischaracterization.

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I'd take this as true on its face if I hadn't been called a flag waving racist merely for wanting SOME sort of control on immigration, a bigot against gays because I agreed with the position that Kerry took on gay marriage in the 2004 election, and watched others get flogged for similar positions. But given that, I look at the assertion with an open mind.

My belief is that if I looked at the instances you call "derogatory", I might find them insulting, snarky, maybe even rude, but not racist. The fact that you throw in "identifying people by fashion choices" as one someone that "accepted that talk as acceptable discourse" pretty much proves that.

Identfying people by fashion choices isn't the deepest analysis, granted, but to put in in the category of "derogatory" with racism simply equates racism with mean talk and snarkiness rather than the or one of the defining problems of the US. Putting racism in a box with a snotty remark about white after labor day is at best nonsense and at worse makes racism less objectionable.