On the issue of racism if you use colour or race in a derogatory manner it's racism. You can never understand it unless you are in a position of minority or oppression. It's offensive and a completely unacceptable.
But how do you define "derogatory manner"? It's a catch 22 at times - seriously and it all comes back to ones own moral compass doesn't it?
Why? because someone may make a comment that to them is made innocently and someone else will decree or imply that is derogatory and therefore racist, when it wasn't meant that way at all.
I seen examples of it throughout this thread.
Clearly there are things that are out of bounds for a reason and so they should be. They cannot be disputed
But then there are things that fall into the grey areas; which are usually comments that are misconstrued as being racist when they are not.
So do you deem the person who makes a comment innocently but has it construed by someone else a certain way as a racist? We shouldn't but we do. Is that right, accapetable? One would hope NO but sadly it appears at times it doesn't work like that
I've said it before and I will say it again what one person finds offensive another wont; so who's right and who's wrong?