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There's a difference between being racist, and agreeing that there are negative stereotypes that you may not like.

For example, hypothetically, and don't jump all over me for saying this, (I know it's my first post here), I walk into my school's dining hall, and there is a group of, let's say, African American people, screaming at the top of their lungs for whatever reason. The negative stereotype here being that 'they're too loud'. Do I hate them just because they are part of a certain ethnicity? Hell no! I'd be pissed if I walked into the dining hall and ANYONE was being loud and obnoxious. It has no bearing on what their skin color or background is. If they were white, yellow, purple or green, I'd be pissed just the same.

No, it is not okay to be racist. But what is okay, is disliking people individually for their actions. You're your own person, and you can make your own choices. My stepfather is extremely racist. It just makes me think less of him as a person.
This is mostly true. People have lost sight of what the term racist really means. Racism isn't making jokes about people because of their race. It's not stereotyping them either. It's not even having a preference to people of a certain race to those of another. Racism is placing members of a certain race/s above members of another race/s in what I can only describe as a "divine superiority". It is the act of divinifying a certain race/s while demonizing another race/s. It's funny because we put so much of an emphasis on all these small things like "racist remarks" and "racial stereotypes" yet we don't put any emphasis at all on the true racism here: cultural brainwashing. Cultural brainwashing is the ultimate predecessor to any form of true racism. It encourages people through inconspicuous means to favor members of a certain race and/or culture over the members of their own. Through this, racism takes its roots and everyone exposed to such brainwashing becomes inherently racist without even noticing it. A good read to study the nature of this brainwashing is a book called "Rabbit Proof Fence" in which the white natives of Australia sought to "breed the black out" of half caste children "for their own good". Not only were they administering the seeds of cultural brainwashing, but they themselves had been brainwashed into believing that taking half castes away from their families and forcing them into a Western family was in the half caste's best interest. If you think about it for a while, the roots of that belief stem from the fact that those white people were inherently racist through cultural brainwashing.