On: Books I read this year

[detaro]

Treating someone badly because of what ethnicity they have is racism, yes, even if they might have reasons for feeling that way.

[hennsen → detaro]

American is not a race.

[detaro → hennsen]

The poster explicitly mentions not being American. And "White American" is an ethnic category.

[hennsen → detaro]

But she says she thinks he is!

[hennsen → hennsen]

And she didn’t say white anything. Might have done the same with anybody she takes as an American of any color and shade.

[kuba77 → hennsen]

That's racism.

[hennsen → kuba77]

It’s anti americanism.

[KSS42 → detaro]

Was it racism? Ia "American" a race?

Sounds like discrimination based on nationality.

[Mediterraneo10 → KSS42]

The use of “racism” to describe prejudice against traits other than inborn ones, such as nationality or ethnicity, goes back many decades and this is well recognized except by pedants. Take a look at the OED entry for “racist”.

[fjsolwmv → KSS42]

Useless pedantry is unhelpful.