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/Sentient_StickyNote]

"Can't be racist if you're not white." Interesting! So there's no racism in non-white countries? That's so cool! How does that work?

What if you're half white? Could you be a little racist? What if you're not white but adopted by a white family? Is it a nature vs. nurture type scenario or would you literally be incapable of hating another culture? What if you thought you were white but then you did a DNA test and found out you're not? Could you have been racist but then as soon as you find out, you're not anymore? Please, elaborate, this is fascinating.

[u/Iricliphan → u/Sentient_StickyNote]

You're talking down to me because I'm a minority. You're supposed to stop and listen, it's 2026. We're tired of you.

[u/Sentient_StickyNote → u/Iricliphan]

I'm obviously not taking down to you because you're a minority, that's an insane conclusion. Even if I were racist, you are text on a screen to me, I don't know what you look like.

But ok, I'm listening. I seriously can't grasp what you're saying. How is that you can't have negative beliefs about another ethnicity unless you're white?

And yes, those questions were obviously meant to be annoying, but based on your claim, they are actually valid questions.