[EvanJC]

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What is racism? Are we all speaking in the same wavelength?

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...defines racism as a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race, AND that it is also the prejudice based on such a belief.

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Thinking you're better is okay as long as you don't act on it.

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You're right, racism is an amazingly complicated issue and there are a million shades of gray.

I would argue that thinking you're better than another person b/c of racial factors is not okay (although I hate this word here), even if you don't act on it.