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Message: [QUOTE="lynx000, post: 2338067, member: 2065"] I must admit I am still struggling with all of this re the racism aspect. Leaving aside the perjorative c*** aspect to it, does simply referring to someone as a black man or woman make that a racist comment? If so, why, is it because you are using a physical descriptor to label? If that is the case, would it not be equally discriminatory to describe someone as fat, large, skinny, short, asian, aboriginal etc. If I describe the suspect of a robbery as being a white male, am I being racially prejudiced? If not, why not? If that isn't a racially discriminatory comment or observation, why is it one if I was to describe the suspect as being a black man? I'm not trying to be smart, I am just trying to understand what about that descriptor makes it racially offensive? Does the addition of some other perjorative comment, is that what turns it into a racist comment? The Anti-Discrimination Act describes treating a person with an attribute less favourably than others without that attribute. Describing someone as black does not mean that I am treating them less favourably than others. I am genuinely interested in your thoughts? [/QUOTE]

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