Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4010415-20141223120240/@comment-14909251-20150107204012

Zoboso wrote: This is exactly why Wiess is racist, she may not want to be racist, but racism is an expediant mental shortcut reinforced through use. If it was not a useful shorthand to use a person's appearence, then stereoTvTropes would not be a thing.

Personally, I think labeling anyone racist over such a thing greatly lessens the severity of racism. Everyone makes these kinds of judgments about people, whether they would admit it or not. Unless you argue that we are all basically racists, thus making it meaningless to call anyone a racist, you have to acknowledge that certain things we might normally perceive as racism are actually just reasonable responses to existing circumstances.