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Posted 2008-03-27, 10:13 PM in reply to Demosthenes's post starting "If we're being purely semantic, the..."
Adrenachrome said:
Racism is dead. I have never met a racist person. I agree with you but people need to understand the difference between bigotry and racism.
You’re right it is more bigotry than it is racism.

Mjordan2nd said:
Vituperation is the only appropriate response to racism.
I’d have to agree with you on that but vituperation would not provide any long term solutions either.

Although we’re approaching a point where it’s embarrassing to exhibit any obvious outward showings of racism, at least hopefully, it’s like you said, a more subtle almost unconscious form of racism is inherent in a large part of the country’s population.

Education would probably be the only way to fix that.
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