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[quote=takoma][quote=Anonymous]If I have four different piles of trash--let's say, plastic, tin, colored paper, and white paper--and I ask for the "white trash", how is that racist?[/quote] That looks to me like a sarcastic rebuttal of some of the previous comments. If so, I agree: It's not about a logical parsing of dictionary definitions, but about perceptions. It may not BE racist, but there is plenty of evidence here that some people perceive it as racist, and that, depending on who is saying it and who is hearing it, it can be perceived as racist in very different ways. Not everything is simply "yes" or "no".[/quote]
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