I mean, technically racism is the belief that one race has inherent superiority over another. So he is being racist, just not in the way we’re used to in the western world. In typically racism is directed against blacks, his is in favor of them. But it’s still racism.

“In typically racism is directed against blacks.”
Wut.
Racism is just as often directed against Asians, Native Americans, Eastern Indians, Africans, Middle-Easterners, Inuits, Frenchmen, and every other race/nationality as it is directed against Blacks/African-Americans. Racism is not “typically” directed any more against any one particular race than it is other races. Gah. That’s almost as bad as saying racism started with Christopher Columbus (I have seen people say as much before).
Generalizing like that simply doesn’t work or make sense.

It’s not putting anyone down, certainly — but, she -IS- pigeonholing everyone into very, very specific roles, on the basis of race and nothing else. Just because she’s putting a positive spin on it, doesn’t mean it isn’t racist to do so.

And it isn’t quite discrimination, at the moment — But, that doesn’t mean this worldview is neccessarily free from discrimination, either. Would Feather’s approach here be different, if Mr. “The Strongest Man” was the writer, and “Wisdom Man” was the bodyguard? If something needs to be figured out (or not figured out), her eyes will be on Ben and Ben alone.

So, this is definitely not the most obvious and common kind of racism seen today. ..but, it still qualifies.

A lot of people here are sounding like “I’m not racist, but…” types. Hope that’s working out for you. I got tired of it a couple of years ago. Now it’s like “I got brought up in a racist community, but I’m working on it.”

I think it is typecasting of racial archetypes based on theosophical and evolutionary theoretical timelines. Maybe it’s racist, maybe it’s not. It’s definitely stereotypical and erroneous assumption on some level. Sad to say but ‘race’ is still a HUGE issue in the US despite some (white) people’s claims otherwise. The comments here are a testament to that. 400 yrs of negative reinforcement aren’t countered and resolved with 50-150 yrs. of spotty improvements and denials of a lack of change in attitudes. There’s a lot of superficiality in the discussion of the subject. The truth of the matter shows up in much more unconciously incidental ways.

On one hand it’s pretty funny to be able to tell an allegorical story about the history of the world using archetypes associated with the people in the room. On the other hand it’s deeply problematic to differentiate between one kind of people and another. It doesn’t matter if your prejudices are positive or negative, they’re still prejudices that keep you from treating people as individuals and equals. This is the root of divisiveness, of keeping people turned against each other in conflict over our differences instead of working for our common interests.

Of course from what we’ve seen there’s not a single person in Templar who could even understand any part of what I just said.