yes, this, exactly. Racism is: the owner of a Klan bar calling Obama a half-breed. Racism isn't: anything less extreme than that. This takes me back to Well Shitterly and his "hey, I know racism! I've seen crosses burned on lawns!" defense.

. . . and, as you know, I'm so horrifed by the "genocide = socialized medicine" poster that I . . . it's too much, it eludes me.