Originally Posted by Figment
Actually, I think you too are confused. You define racism as pure racial hatred/superiority believes. Racism however, is the assigning a person traits whether positive, neutral or negative based on this person's race alone.
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No, that is not the dictionary definition. By your definition it seems even calling someone "white" or "black" is racist. Is the statement "black people typically have black hair" racist? By your definition, it seems so. By the dictionary definition, it is not, as it carries no statement of superiority or hatred. It may be a stereotype, but it's not a racist statement.