>>>>I've already had the argument of the definition of racist - look it up in the dictionary - that is how one determines how a word is defined.
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>>Yes, sir. So you mean precisely "showing or feeling discrimination or prejudice against people of other races, or believing that a particular race is superior to another."
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>In an interview Barack Obama said that he faced a choice because of his ancestry, as young man - be white or be black?
>He said that he chose to live as a black man without going into the reasoning behind his choice.
>As I've said many times, I supported Obama and would gladly do it again.
>However I can't, in a million years, see how that definition doesn't make Obama a racist.

So -- ""showing or feeling discrimination or prejudice against people of other races, or believing that a particular race is superior to another."
...and you somehow think Obama is a racist, and Trump is not? hahahahaha....wow that is really jacked up thinking dude.

>My point- and I seem to need a sledgehammer to drive it home- is that calling someone a racist with that definition is a meaningless, petty, nasty insult.

It is not meaningless if you comprehend the meaning of words. And it's not an 'insult' if you're speaking the truth. What is insulting is denying racism when it's staring you in the face.

>I thought that ended when Joe McCarthy bit the dust, but it apparently hasn't.

McCarthyism does not apply here. It's not a matter of questioning a person's patriotism. If one denies racism exists then they're complicit. Being complicit in racism is racism.

I suggest you watch this film: www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/american-denial/
A read this short article: www.psychologytoday.com/blog/is-psychology-making-us-sick/201503/racism-our-collective-complicity-denial-and-naivet

Respond only after you've actually watched the film Bill - and maybe done some soul-searching.