# Is it racist?  Racial remarks spark reprimand of Nevada official

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [March 27, 2011, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-racist-racial-remarks-spark-reprimand-of-nevada-official/576151 "2011-03-27T15:42:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Fotheringay-Phipps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d9b06d/32.png) [@Fotheringay-Phipps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fotheringay-Phipps)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-racist-racial-remarks-spark-reprimand-of-nevada-official/576151/161 "2011-04-01T13:03:06Z")

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> [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](#):
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> What an evil hateful racist piece of garbage. You’re on honestly saying this throat punch deserving bigoted hate monger had no racist motivations against the workers? If she did have racist motivations against the workers how does it follow that her actions were not racist?
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> I have Latina ancestors, among others. Where they the nation’s greatest enemies?

You could be right about all this. I’m not saying this woman is not a racist, based on her other comments (assuming they’re being accurately reported). I’m discussing the issue cited in the OP - whether the email in the OP is racist.

I said this explicitly in my first post to this thread.

[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=13623301&postcount=64](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=13623301&postcount=64)

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