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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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Of course it does. You're using a racial slur to put down a person. Racial slurs when used as insults are meant to make the person feel inferior.
If you said "I really dislike that Indian chick next door" then no it wouldn't make you racist.
If you said "god I hope that dumb kurry smelling Indian would just leave to India already" then I think it would make you a racist.
If you use a racial slur to insult someone chances are you're a racist.