The word "racist" used to have a well-defined meaning. Now it's overloaded so much it's no longer useful. When everything is racist, nothing is.
Assuming anyone that you have come to know is exactly like you is not racist. In Bayesian sense, it's just a weak prior. Works well most of the time, unless you hold on to it too long without paying attention to other information available to you.
One can say that crossing the street to avoid approaching group of young black males is racist, because you assume they are up to no good based on the color of their skin. But if instead you assume that they are exactly like you (which you say is racist), then not crossing the street is racist. Both cannot be right.
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Assuming anyone that you have come to know is exactly like you is not racist. In Bayesian sense, it's just a weak prior. Works well most of the time, unless you hold on to it too long without paying attention to other information available to you.
One can say that crossing the street to avoid approaching group of young black males is racist, because you assume they are up to no good based on the color of their skin. But if instead you assume that they are exactly like you (which you say is racist), then not crossing the street is racist. Both cannot be right.