Re: racist vs racialist?

>Tangentially, I, when feeling the need for a distinction, would
>ratherreserve "racism" for what Mr Cowan calls "race hatred", and use
>"racial discrimination" for the institutionalized discrimination.
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?
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.
But personnaly, i think it is not more racist that, for example, prefering blondes
to black-haired, and feeling red-haired are not so great, because this only
relies on an esthetic jugement, and does not imply anything else.

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