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He's exaggerating a bit, but the point holds true.
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I was picking at the example, not the point, and the example is a little more wrong than an exaggeration, it does seem to me!
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Pretty much all animals ever are at the very least naturally suspicious of things that are different.
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Look at it this way... can every derivation of this sort of thought in contemporary society be called racism following any definition of the term? Evidently not. When the target of the othering is a target because of their sex or gender (and similar points of identity), per example, it's obvious that the term racism is very inappropriate. Yet it proceeds from the same things referred to here.
A definition that is that broad needs to make those exceptions. So you're defining racism as all of the 'othering' behaviors, thoughts, institutions that occurs not fully within a single identifiable race, regardless if a proper concept of 'race' is a factor or not. I don't think it's a very useful definition, but I'm not sure if my meaning is clear.