> Thanks for your words of support and I even found your racist comment
> touching.

Hmm. Could have been taken that way. That went through my mental
filters untouched.
"Minorities" seems to be an "if the cap fits wear it" perspective -
and of course can be something for racism to hide behind.

A problem is that some cultures and some religious groups (not an
exhaustive list) as a general rule take certain well enough defined
attitudes to certain well enough defined "provocations". As such
cultures can have a tendency to be ethnically aligned, and as many
religions, to a variable extent, also tend to correlate with
ethnicity, then comments ( "...-isms") which describe a perceived
societal or religious norm  may also be seen as applying to some
racial groups more than others and so be able to be described as
"racist".

As an extreme example, you are far more liable to catalyse physical
violence if you parody Allah in Saudi Arabia than if you do the same
of Jesus Christ in New Zealand.  Commenting on the former may be seen
as racist, even if many would see the parody as fair and honest
comment. Whatever.


    Russell
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