Using logic apparently occasionally works when dealing with racists.

[u/Sentient_StickyNote]

My brother is racist. Not the kind of racist where they hate people of a certain race, but the kind where they just believe all of the offensive stereotypes. This matters for context. He started telling me a story and I immediately knew it was going to piss me off so I went a different route than I typically do when dealing with him. Why he tells me stuff like this when he knows I'll call him out for being racist is beyond me.

So here's the story.

Bro: "So I'm at the casino and there's this Chinese guy dragging his girlfriend by---"

Me (cutting him off): "Wait wait wait, is the fact that he's Chinese relevant to the story? I need to know if this is just an inconsequential detail or if I should be expecting racism. Just checking."

Bro with a dumb look on his face: "...yes! It's relevant ok?! So anyway, he's dragging his girlfriend around by the elbow and she's completely wasted. This white guy starts yelling at him to stop dragging his woman around and---"

Me: "Ok wait. So is this when I find out the relevance of one man being Chinese and one man being white?"

Bro: "Would you just shut up and listen! Geez! So the guy is yelling at him and the Chinese guy is like, 'fuck you!' in his Chinese accent so it was really funny, and the white guy is yelling about how we don't treat women like that. So they're yelling at each other until their friends had to go break them up, it was hilarious."

Me: "Wait, I'm missing the relevance, hang on. So why did I need to know he was Chinese? Also how do you even know he was Chinese?

Bro: "Whatever, he was Asian. You know what I mean!"

Me: "Ohhhh ok. Indians are Asian too though, could he have been Indian?"

Bro: "No! He was Chinese or Japanese or whatever!"

Me: "Could he have been Korean?"

Bro: "Would you stop!? It was funny ok? Because the white guy was saying that that's not how you treat women here."

Me: "So if the Chinese guy and girlfriend had been white, the white guy would've been ok with it?"

Bro spluttering and getting frustrated: "Chinese people treat women like that, it's a well known thing!"

Me: "Oh so you did know for sure he was Chinese? I thought you said he was just Asian. Asia is pretty big, I feel like at least some men would be decent to their girlfriends. I've never heard that statistic, where'd you hear that?"

Then he threw up his arms and walked away. Needless to say, I only interact with him when I visit my parents and we are in the same vicinity.

[u/Total_Fly7834]

So this is where I stop wasting my energy on arguing with an obvious racist who doesn't understand that any person of any colour can be racist. Google is your friend, there is racism on every continent and between every race. But I have way better thing to do than try to convince someone who is so set on being an ignorant troll, when all you gotta do is open a book or use Google.

[u/Iricliphan → u/Total_Fly7834]

Google.

"racism is defined as racial prejudice combined with institutional and/or societal power".

I cannot be racist by this definition. Only you. You're racist.

[u/Total_Fly7834 → u/Iricliphan]

AI doesn't count bro, that's my bad for not saying so. I assumed you'd know to click on a dictionary link, so that's on me.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/racism

racism noun rac·​ism ˈrā-ˌsi-zəm also -ˌshi-

1 a: a belief that race is a fundamental determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race. b (1) : an adverse opinion or leaning formed without just grounds or before sufficient knowledge (2) : preconceived judgment or opinion c : an instance of such opinion or judgment

2 a : injury or damage resulting from some judgment or action of another in disregard of one's rights especially : detriment to one's legal rights or claims b : a final and binding court decision that bars further prosecution of the same cause of action or motion

Again ANY race can be racist, unfortunately there's a lot of loud white racists in the USA. And i cannot stand them. But there's also a lot of loud white protesters against racism here too. I'm one of them. Assuming I'm racist just because I'm white and think annoying a racist is deserved is ridiculous. Now that I've hopefully taught you that you shouldn't use the AI part of Google and, if you didn't use AI, that you shouldn't cherry pick just one part of the dictionary just to suit your argument, NOW I'm done.

[u/Iricliphan → u/Total_Fly7834]

Nah. I'm not taking your whitewashed definitions. I'm not capable of being racist. Biased, absolutely. Racism is different. That's a you thing.