# Racist is not an insult when a person is a racist. **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [October 11, 2015, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/racist-is-not-an-insult-when-a-person-is-a-racist/734241 "2015-10-11T05:19:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 178
**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:** [October 12, 2015, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/racist-is-not-an-insult-when-a-person-is-a-racist/734241/178 "2015-10-12T17:06:17Z")
The key issue as I see it is that - contrary to what many people have asserted in this thread - the post which received the warning was not simply declaring that CP’s beliefs amounted to racism. The actual post was: > [@How many human races are there?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-human-races-are-there/732359/161): > > This leaves people like me assured with the idea that you’re a racist and this isn’t about science and finding justice for a taboo hypothesis, this is about your politics. You could disguise that more if in the future you show more doubt about your hypothesis and pretend to respect the huge number of studies showing disparities in the environments within which white and black people grow. What Inbred is saying here is that CP is not not just being incorrect in his interpretations of the evidence, but is doing this deliberately due to his “politics”, and on this rests the accusation of racism. There’s a huge gulf between that and simply defining someone’s expressed beliefs as racism, and people who claim it’s all about the latter are misrepresenting the situation. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/racist-is-not-an-insult-when-a-person-is-a-racist/734241)._