Yes I am "racist", and I would consider anyone on this forum who is not racist to either be intentionally ignorant or intellectually dishonest. The term "racist" though is stupid and just a pejorative, how racist does someone have to be to be "a racist"?
Remember. Racism does not mean "Mean". Racism means "believes race is real and meaningful, especially if one is partial to their own race", which I do and I think most of you do too.
We have to comprehend the context of the OP's intention, as well, which was, as he pointed out with a "True" reaction to a previous post of mine (in the thread on this topic before this one), to ask about
prejudice regarding ethnic race, rather than a
belief in some form of significance involving ethnic race and genetics. I think, in the way you're describing it, yes, we'd all be "racist" from even the slightest fashion of belief, as it's obvious that genetics
are an aspect to racial difference and that, psychologically, people will, through their own, human nature of their mind, prefer their
own over others, naturally, not always to huge extents, but (and I will use this word "general" often), in a general sense. This is truly scientific, being one of the most documented bonds of people set to their own paths, who were divided or united by their tribal/ethnic connections even as we view in holy scripture with the warring civilizations of the ancient days, and
true science does not deny truth, unlike most regular "science" today, so this is not a bad science that we can not see truth in. However, I believe that your conversation with Aedra is in some way a misunderstanding between either of you. Aedra interprets the word in the manner of prejudice and hatred of different races, and you interpret it in the manner of acknowledging broad racial characteristic differences through the genetics of the ethnic blood of that general race (i.e people of the same race are generally better at some things than other races,
generally and in slightness
, as there is still a present equality in the physical human form [from our creation in the image of The Lord] that is then influenced through genetic difference which is in itself influenced by one's ethnic blood). He, therefore, doesn't believe himself to fall under the term, as it has a different meaning to him as it does to you, so I believe that's the real conundrum, here.