>>The point is/was that the act of a Chinese restaurant serving only Chinese food is not a racist act.
I'd say not... but it could be, depending how you define racist. How would you define it?
A scenario to consider: two lesbian activists go into a Chinese restaurant wanting a rainbow cake for their imminent wedding. The Chinese proprietor responds "no rainbow cake, only Chinese food." What happens next?
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
