Are you racist?

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

I don't make assumptions about someone based on their race,

So when you see someone who looks Hispanic, you don't assume there's good odds they speak Spanish? Or someone says, "mind if I bring my friend David Goldberg over for brunch," you don't think that maybe bagles and lox would make a good choice to serve?

These are just broad buckets that ease social interaction in the short term. It means people don't have to walk around with life-history pamphlets so that we can start conversations with each other. As long as we realize that those generalizations are simply a start point, not an end point, it's a useful thing. It's only when people mistake "stereotype" for "general truth" that things become problematic.