# Do you consider the following assumption racist?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 9, 2012, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-consider-the-following-assumption-racist/634252 "2012-09-09T23:48:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8c91f0/32.png) [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bam_Boo_Gut)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-consider-the-following-assumption-racist/634252/61 "2012-09-12T01:55:51Z")

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How many bikes were stolen in your area? If this was an issue, would the police not be impounding bikes?

Young kids get given bikes but can’t ride them around the streets, big bro borrows it to get around.

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**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-consider-the-following-assumption-racist/634252/62 "2012-09-12T06:13:47Z")

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> [@ecoaster](#):
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> My racial stereotype may be wrong, but I’m still not convinced it is racist.

_All_ racial stereotypes are racist. Even the positive ones. And yours is far from positive.

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