I agree with European Pete here.

I detest the casual, and seemingly incessant, use of the word "racist" lately. I have a unnaturally strong aversion to the worldview of those who engage in that behaviour, having grown up in a place where their ideological comrades destroyed many lives on both sides of my family. Nothing European Pete has written so far falls under that category IMHO.

I also have a heightened sensitivity to actual racist attitudes. My wife is non-white, and our children are mixed-race. A couple of years ago she fell and slid clumsily into someone at an ice skating rink, upon which she was told to "get some North-American manners". I've never been so mad in my entire life, and it's a miracle that I somehow managed to keep it PG-13 in an arena packed with children. I wish I could say that nothing OP has written brought back memories of that.

It's hard to read OP's post charitably, which one must always try to do, given the title OP himself chose for the thread. This isn't some NYT editor slapping the callous "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt" title on Mitt Romney's informed and reasoned op-ed about a decade ago.

Victim he ain't.