Re: racist vs racialist?

En réponse à Florian Rivoal <florian@...>:

> And how would you call the following phenomenom?
> I, being "white" (caucasian or whatever you want to call it), consider
> all races (if such distinction is really meaningfull) equal. exept that
> i think asian girls are the most beautyful. So in a certain sense, since
> everything else is equal, granting them one more quality, I somehow
> consider asian people "superior" to others, including to my own "kind".
> ;)
> Would anyone call this racism? or is there an other word?
I'd just call that "personal taste" ;)))) .

> But since i am not very found of black girls, again everything else than
> apperance being equal, i could say i think black people are not as good
> as the other. And since this time, i place someone under the other, it
> is more easy to call it racism.
And I'm sure if you actually said that to some people they would call you
racist, although they themselves wouldn't mind admitting preferring women with
big breasts than ones with small breasts ;))) .

> But personnaly, i think it is not more racist that, for example,
> prefering blondes to black-haired,
Now *that*'s racism!!! ;)))

 and feeling red-haired are not so
> great, because this only relies on an esthetic jugement, and does not
> imply anything else.
>
That's why I prefer the term "discrimination" which is better to handle the
problem, since it goes beyond race, but doesn't include taste choices.

Christophe.

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