Racist Or Just Stating A Fact?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2952661/You-guys-used-slaves-Police-probe-video-racist-woman-having-argument-black-man-London-Underground.html

[Svejk]

tut,tut. andy. Showing your prejudice again. It's not prejudice to call someone a Rasta. You seem to think it's an insult. It's not.

[andy-hughes]

Svejk - "tut,tut. andy. Showing your prejudice again. It's not prejudice to call someone a Rasta. You seem to think it's an insult. It's not."

I am not showing any predjudice at all!

Indeed it is not predjudice to call someone a Rasta, neither is it an insult, and I do not think that it is.

However, it is ignorant to call someone a Rasta when they are not one - it infers that you think any black person is a Rastafarian - as you appear to do when you refer to the gentleman in the clip as a Rasta, when he clearly is not one.

So when it comes to ignorance and predjudices, you have to be careful of what you speak.

Rastafarianism is a faith, not an ethnic group.