Re: Is this racism?
What race are the radio hosts? That matters. It's certainly insensitive, and whether or not it's "racist" seems like semantics to me. That's such a charged word. But I think it's inappropriate and probably unacceptable, and probably even "racist."
But of course, it's all freedom-and-equality-loving-libertarian to say how race wouldn't be an issue if "people didn't keep bringing it up." Which is nonsense.
And the argument that "black people can say things whites can't" is stupid too. Of course they can. As a culture, they have different experiences and different sensitivities than whites. Whites can say things that blacks can't as well, you know. They just don't often feel the need to, because whites happen to be the privileged race in this country.
If you're RaceA, it's really hard to understand what it's like to be part of RaceB.
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