[JustaDumbBlonde]

I suppose that racism has been redefined so that I no longer recognize what is being called racism. Voting for someone because of the color of his/her skin may be ignorant and unwise, but it does not necessarily indicate any belief of superiority over another race.

Actually, the words racist and racism are thrown around so easily these days to describe any slight or offense that someone may infer. The words simply don't have the import or impact that they did in the past.

[L98Fiero]

“Actually, the words racist and racism are thrown around so easily these days to describe any slight or offense that someone may infer. The words simply don’t have the import or impact that they did in the past.”

I remember a “Roseanne” episode where the message of the show was pretty “You are probably a racist and don’t even know it.”

In the last scene of the show we we learned that if you are a woman alone in a business after closing time and you don’t open the locked door when a black man you don’t know begins banging on it, you are subconsciously racist.”

That’s pretty much when I decided the term “racist” had jumped the shark.

[Kleon]

I suppose that racism has been redefined so that I no longer recognize what is being called racism. Voting for someone because of the color of his/her skin may be ignorant and unwise, but it does not necessarily indicate any belief of superiority over another race.

Yeah, I don't think "racist" is the word to use here. I look at this the same as any other single issue voter. Someone who votes for a candidate because they're the same race as them probably does so because they think they understand their problems and needs better.