Yeah ! !! lovely soles ! !. any of them with dirty soles ? Thank you ! <| sep |> I always have this debate with my girlfriend . She says a person can be racist but cannot engage in racism , because the ism is the structure by which in sum and substance the majority preys on the minority . Back in my day when Pluto was still a planet , any person of any racialethnic group that thought their group of a higher pecking order than another was a racist , and the act of treating that other person as less of a human being was racism . Now it ' s been altered so that no matter what , only white people can be racists . But herein lies the problem . The guy who did this is a complete bigoted douchenozzle , which we can all agree on . But given the changing definitions of racist and racism , and we ' ll use your term for the sake of argument , he ' s given carte blance no racism intended ? to avoid that most hated term of racist . He ' s a bigot , yeah . He ' s prejudiced against others , yeah . But racist ? Nooooo . and racist is the worst term of the three but no matter what he does , he gets away without being a racist . He attacks this guy for the color of his skin and ethnicity , hell even if killed this person over their race , and he ' s only second tier terms of discriminatory . White person says something that ' s a little insensitive , it ' s racism . Why ? Because the color of hisher skin and the perceived power structure of this country . And this is why people go bonkers about the terms used and stop caring about being PC and simply yell louder at each other . Because the blame of racism and being racist in this country will only be on whites . And they ' re tired of that .