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> Negative racial stereotype as a definition of racism is the classical definition of racism

It wasn’t racial stereotyping. It was stereotyping a country’s population as sad and desperate. Saying X country’s quality of life sucks isn’t racist.

If they’d said or implied Cambodian Americans are also sad and desperate, sure. But they didn’t.



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