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Originally Posted by robot_parade
A word isn't racist. The person using the word, and their attitude, is. Something like "jew flu" as highthief suggests is clearly intended to demean people based upon their ethnicity. What term do you have in mind here?
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Well, the behavior itself is pointless and really annoying... so yeah, the name is negative in its connotation... but I don't believe that it's racially negative, so much as it's just negative by virtue of what it is, and happens to be specific to race. If it was just specific to sex, for example, it'd be a question of "is it sexist" or whatever. The negativity isn't being directed at the race, just the behavior.
EDIT: The term is as readily and widely used and embraced by people of the same particular race, as anyone else. And i'm not talking about when a group embraces a racial slur so that they can own it and lessen its effect, I mean they use it to complain in the exact same way as anyone else. So... from that standpoint, it doesn't seem that it could be racist... and yet, it just feels wrong.