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Those strike me as understandable sentiments, but I do think they are racist. Are they bigoted? No. Racist? Yes.

Such sentiments try to extrapolate information on a group of people based off of a non-random sampling. There's bias introduced by the geography of one's life, if nothing else.




Racism by definition requires some generalization, however the generality of statements or beliefs do not racism make.




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