People can have racist beliefs and be friends with black people. You're actually trying to argue that "i have blah friends"is a legitimate defense against a charge of racism.

 

Same applies to lgbt people.

But that doens't work. You wouldn't be friends with a black person if you were truly racist.

 

How can you be a bigot ("one who regards or treats the members of a group (as a racial or ethnic group) with hatred and intolerance") if you're friends with them? Logically that makes no sense. Again, I think you're bastardizing the definition here. By this very definition you are a bigot.

 

what? of course you can have friends who are ethnic and still hold racist or stereotypical perceptions of that people as a whole

 

shades. of. grey.

 

the world is really not black and white i promise.

 

EDIT: also, yes, I am bigoted against bigots.

Edited May 2, 201312 yr by Reddy