20-01-12, 08:33 AM
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Woah
Gender: Male
Join Date: Sep 2010
Posts: 1,099
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Re: What would you call racism?
Outlawing hijabs and burqas does not make one racist, as those are tied to the Islamic religion, not a specific race. Though it may make one intolerant of other cultures and religions. By definition, racism deals only with discrimination against race. As a blanket term, you can use "discriminatory", "ignorant" or "intolerant" until words such as "ethnicitist", "homosexualitist" and "disabilitist" are added to the English lexicon to describe someone who is intolerant of ethnicity, homosexuality or disabilities.
Personally, I believe racism starts with the honest belief (note that the wording is indicative of the fact that "racist" jokes do not truly fall into the racism category) that one human race is superior to another.
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