No its not the same thing. I didnt change any definitions. I looked at the emotional context of using the word and the fact he didnt know her. Add those 2 together and you have a racist hiding in plain sight.
Does it?
As mathematical formula:
Emotional content (slur)
plus
Entity not known
______________________
= "racism"??
Don't think so. There's your flawed premise.
I could call BullKurtz "shortbus" and post that he's dumber than a bag of hammers. And I don't know him.
Did I just do something "racist"?
Nope. He and I are (presumably) of the same race. Yet it satisfies the formula above.
Won't work. QED.
"Racism"
requires a
value judgment that a particular race is "inferior". Without that value judgment, there is no racism defined.
Not only do we not have any such value judgment from Casselberry --- we
don't even have so much as a reference to race. His own or anyone else's.
When you're seeing a value judgment in a commentary that never even brought up the topic at all -- you're making things up. Simple as that.