racist?

My Socio/political/spiritual opinion, skip as needed.

Any one who perceives a difference in his fellow man by the simple physical traits is by definition racist. Note, I do not specify acting upon such perception. To acknowledge difference of race is racism.

The same can be said for nationality, sex, sexual preference, social class, job classification etc.

We are in the end _Human_

These "isms" are not inherently evil any more than humans are any more inherently evil than they are inherently good.

Examples:

To consider yourself better than another because of these differences.. that is evil.

To consider yourself entitled to privilege due to these differences, that is Evil.

To act upon fear and the perception of difference is evil.

Now...

To recognize we are not all the same and embrace Life, that is Virtuous.

To recognize that we each have a history and a lineage that is precious to our families, that is respectful and therefor virtuous.

To accept that the history my family has is not the same as the history another family has and allow them to celebrate it, is also respectful and therefor virtuous.

On the backside we don't like to look at,

To Denigrate another's history, culture, and genealogy based solely upon these differences, is _ignorant._

To cry "foul" when some one wants to celebrate a history and culture we are not part of, is _ignorant._

To refuse a real social discourse (not this social media or flash in the pan news crap) is _ignorance_ I mean refusing to listen to another's point of view because yours is simply "Right"

Virtue is virtue, and Evil is Evil but Ignorance is a willful sin.

All of us do evil things and our conscious leads us to amend our ways,

All of us do good things and often we don't even notice that we have done them. Occasional we get vain and once again amend our ways.

To Willfully Sin against one another person, against Deity (if you believe in such), or against our nature; is well detestable. If done in level of magnitude, time, or to excess .. This may well be (in my opinion) Nonredeemable.