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[SteelCurtain]

Calling someone a racist isn't really an argument. It doesn't end the discussion at all. However, if the argument is over whether Chinese people should be allowed in movie theaters, you can certainly say to someone, "You are arguing from a racist perspective and are therefore biased." That's a pretty solid end to a discussion there. I'm just arguing nothing, though, since I seem to think you all believe the same thing, but are just not connecting on it for some reason.

I can definitely stand behind this. 

Only thing I would add is that I'd try to understand what their motivation is for saying such a thing before making the assumption that it's because of their race. Obviously the Chinese not being allowed to go to movies is an extreme example and I can't see why other than racism anyone would have a problem with Chinese at the movies, but as principle I'd like to think I'd try to understand their perspective before mentioning anything about race. Who knows, maybe they'd have a reason for thinking that way that has nothing to do with race. Doubt it though.

I 100% understand this. And I would agree, if it weren't for my every day experiences, I would follow you right down this road.

My experiences nearly every day here in TN make this unbelievably hard. It would be naive of me to continuously think this. I am constantly bombarded with reminders that I am a black guy. I don't think people are malicious about it, but in the five years now that I've lived in TN, I have been pulled over and had a service weapon pulled on me for reaching into my glove compartment after being stopped for having a brake light out, I have been called "boy" literally hundreds of times, I have been told I wasn't welcome at a gas station because "we don't serve towelheads here," I have been greeted too many times to count with that ever so familiar look of surprise when a brown person walks through the door, and then on top of it all, you can't go anywhere without that Confederate Flag flying proudly off of people's black smoke belching raised pickup trucks.

It's hard not to be overly suspicious of everyone when one constantly encounters casual racism.