Whether a comment is racist or not is black and white. I don't care that most democrats disagree with me and most republicans agree with me. And the fact that you want to interject race into this argument as to someones ability to recognize racism is blatant race baiting. It's funny because you like to stand up for every minority group, but the fact that you can't help but interject race into every comment does nothing but perpetuate the problem. But please feel free to claim again that Republican Brass claims it's racist while the vast majority of Republicans claim it isn't. Hell even Jiggy admits it wasn't a racist comment and he is as Liberal as they come on here.
I interjected race into a conversation about racism, God that's controversial...
You do realize that there's such a thing as first hand experience with racism? You do realize that minorities, particularly blacks, are more likely to have it? That's not race baiting that's stating the obvious.
Also, I do disagree with Jiggy on this, but I'm not such a self assured ass that I'd say that he doesn't know what racism is. It's not black and white (unfortunate term for the issue) it's a subjective thing. But unless you have a wildly different background than what I understand, you have no fucking place to claim authority on the topic. The fact that you're out of step with the consensus proves that.
Oh and it's not just Democrats that disagree with you, it's non-Republicans, including Libertarian VP candidate Bill Weld. As much as you like to pretend that you hate the two party system, you sure love parading out the fallacious reasoning that all non-republicans are democrat. You agree with republicans, who are presently ruled by a fringe that the 1980s equivalent of the party would consider extremist. They are not half of the population, they're maybe a third and dwindling as they disenfranchise more and more moderates. Y'know, people who the brass want to appeal to. Y'know, the brass who called what Trump said "textbook racism".