I always thought that racist means basically “something that involves racism” and that racism means “the idea that there are races”.
By that definition this sentence would be racist, bcs it speaks of races. However, I met someone who said this and then claimed that this wasn’t racist. What does racist mean then?
Exactly. And since the categorization is the root of the problem, I assumed that this is what people are talking about. “categorizing people into races == racism” made sense to me. I’m sad to find out how other people understand this word. I find my definition much more useful