You have the right to disagree and to be wrong.
1. Hipster is not a race.
2. Of course his comments were racist. Tim Cook is white and 54. Does that make him a boring businessman?
3. Using a cliche is just an attempt to make one's racism acceptable. If I cite a cliche about another race to make a racist reference, it doesn't make it right.
I agree. You don't refer to others by their race in a derogatory tone unless you are of the same race. Now, I'm not saying Patel is the Indian equivalent of a Neo-Nazi or whatever, but his tweet was racist.
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In addition, it's fairly clear that he just meant that an old white guy wouldn't understand a young hip guy like himrolleyes
, which is a far cry from calling someone the n-word. Seriously, do we have to explain this? His rant was extremely immature and ill-advised, but not because it was racist.
The racist commentary just made an immature, rude tweet worse. And, I'm sure he probably meant it as you described, but if I dropped the N bomb to refer to a stereotype (and everyone knows of a few, our society is full of them), it doesn't mean I am
a racist, but I've still just made a racist comment. I'm a white chick.
Know what I mean?