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Originally Posted by ken0042
I think I get where Mel was going. For example, I really don't like my one neighbour, who happens to be from India. (Her husband is really nice though.) The reasons I don't like her have nothing to do with race, and everything to do with her being a bit of a bitch. (Once again her husband with his very broken English has appologized to me a couple of times for the way she has spoken to me.)
Let's say one day she pushes the wrong buttons and I snap back. However instead of calling her a bitch, I use a racial slur. Does that one comment make me a racist?
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I guess that's the disconnect on my end, Ken. For me, the example you gave of calling the neighbour a racial slur dies in fact make that person racist. Now, certainly people can be varying degrees of racist, but o think anyone who calls anyone anything racist is a racist to done degree, no matter how small.