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Originally Posted by Yamer
This is where I think careful use of more precise language would be beneficial.
The majority of these racial or cultural generalizations are simply stereotyping, which is a pretty typical human process we use to organize and make sense of the world. Some of them are useful, some of them are benign, and some of them are harmful.
A problem I have is the saturation of the term racism and how its overuse is providing a defense of or for actual racism/racists.
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I think we have actually seen morphism in this regard, just less in the way people assume and more in the other direction.
"Racism" is more or less being correctly applied in this instance. While the word is loaded/has weight due to being incorrectly used in the past, it doesn't diminish the fact that saying "x does y (due to their race)" is an inherently racist statement.
Nowadays, when someone is "racist" or says "racist" things, but also espouses negative sentiment towards a racial group, they are
also typically called a "bigot", because their behavior is characteristic of a bigoted person. This is also why you see commentators denote that a person/statement is both "racist"
and "bigoted" and not just one or the other.