Comments by "" (@TheHuxleyAgnostic) on "Guest Calls-Out BBC On-Air Over Anti-Corbyn Bias" video.
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@nameisamine Racism isn't strictly about colour, or ethnicity. Racists tend to think their race, or ethnic group, is superior for some reasons, and they assign certain characteristics to their imagined ideal specimen. Most white supremacists, for example, tend to assign Christianity, or at least Christian culture/heritage, as a characteristic of their ideal specimen. You know, claiming Christianity created the Western world, or whatever. So, they don't consider Jews, most of whom are white, to be one of them. Some even specifically assign Protestantism as a characteristic, and don't consider Catholics to be one of them. Likewise for Muslims. Whether those people are actually of a different race, or not, they get treated as if they are. Like, instead of "no Catholics" signs, in the US, places had "no Irish" or "no Italians", treating them as if they were different races, than other Europeans, rather than simply a different religion. So, yes, saying people look like a mailbox could be considered racist.
You could nitpick for it to be called "bigotry" but, either way, it's discriminatory and dehumanizing.
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