[president]

Racism as a catch-all term makes for really unproductive discourse. There's a difference between "I deeply hate people of a certain race from the bottom of my heart" vs "I generally hate the behavior I have observed of a certain race because they are different from my expectations." The latter is probably more common and it's because humans don't like things that are different from them. The former is evil and is what used to come to mind when people used the term. I would like to see these two things conflated less.

[patrick451]

The dichotomy in popular discourse is even stronger. "I generally prefer to avoid the behavior I have typically observed of a certain race because they are different from my expectations," is also often called racist and evil. In which case, I don't care if I'm a racist by that definition.

[ComplexSystems]

Both of these things are evil and racist.

[president]

I disagree. One is a hatred of a an immutable characteristic (race) whereas the other is a hatred of an action. There is a big difference. This is not a justification of hatred of actions but people seem to conflate the two.

[darthrupert]

Your comment seems to be gaslighting. The other of those is inexcusable bad behavior whereas the other is a fundamental human survival instinct. Calling that racist is perhaps defensible, but "evil"? Preposterous.

[achrono]

Is vs ought. It /might/ be a biologically rooted tendency (and there is evidence suggesting this is the case) but that does not imply that is how we should be. After all, humans also have the opposite tendency, i.e. to love what is foreign, or an orthogonal one, i.e. to insist on mutual respect.

Human rights have no ontological basis, but they are a valid marker of any form of human civilization.

[mushbino]

I think you're proving the point. Both of these things absolutely 100% meet the definition of racist.

[roflyear]

There's a difference between killing someone and assaulting them but both suck.