racist

so what is stating a fact and what is racism?

i am asian. fact

but lets say i said, asians all have black hair... is that a fact? or is that racism?
maybe there are asians with different hair colours? but its accepted as fact

now you could say that its only racist if its offensive or harmful

now if i said asians are all good at maths which probably isn't a fact. but is it racism? its not offensive...or harmful, its potentially untrue, just like hair colour.


anyway, we had a very elaborate discussion of race and the concept of asia during my "modern asia tute", quite interesting, but i think the funniest/worst thing i ever heard during the tute was when a rich white girl said (after much discussion of indian students and having concluded that many of the attacks probably were not racially motivated, they were just at the wrong place at the wrong time):

"i don't want to sound racist or anything, i'm not racist, but i think the indian students bring it on themselves"

i think she was just lucky there wasn't any people of indian decent in the class haha.

what is more scary? being a racist? or being racist and not realising?