Brown – Member
Racism for me requires intent.
I disagree. That implies there’s no such thing as casual racism.
If something’s said ‘without intent’ but still upsets people of a particular race based on their race, that’s racist, regardless of intent.
I can see there being a need to differentiate between overt racism and societal racism that goes back generations, as lets face it does exist(i’m guilty of it myself, born late 70s, growing up in the 80s, hard to avoid it, society moves on though and we learn).
I don’t think it’s really helpful to call the later racists though, rather than just say, come on, do you realise you sound like a fossil or some such, and just make it known, it’s really socially unacceptable to refer to such and such as such and such… (in saying that, I think we’re well down that path these days, so anyone that religiously sticks to stereotypical terms can probably be called a racist.)