I think the definition of racism is different from city to city. In Toronto, for example, everyone is a minority. White, black, brown, yellow, red, other...everyone is a minority so a lot of the mentality simply doesn't include racist thoughts at least on a day to day interaction level.
Calgary has been a white city for a long time and now that is changing. But it would seem to me that out here people are more likely to call a spade a spade regardless of the vernacular or forum they choose to express that. What might sound like a blatantly ignorant racial comment in TO might come off as a reasonable although rough-around-the-edges type of comment here in Calgary. Does that make the person vocalizing the comments a racist?
Depends on where you live, I guess.
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