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Jordan: #It is racist. # #Them there savages can't not thunk it like us white folk. They #ain't even got no word for 'compassion', I tell ye. Personally, I think that using a term like racist obscures more than it reveals, though I admit that sometimes it is useful (e.g. I find that telling my students that I think that accent prejudice is racist gets the point home to them more effectively than other means). As for your example, is it a leg-pull/a troll? It doesn't bear any resemblance to any variety of whorfism I've ever encountered. And I reckon, impressionistically, that manifestations of racism are less likely to be found among professional linguists than among most other groups. --And.