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If he was Polish or Irish I would mention it also. Lay off me with the PC bullshit please, I was being descriptive.



No, you were being racist.


Would you then argue that if a specific racial group were statistically much more likely to offer poor taxi service in a particular country, this fact should not be disseminated as it would constitute racism? Or do you consider it racism because you believe he was making an unfounded generalisation, implying that all middle-eastern taxi drivers were unreliable when in fact he only had a sample size of one?




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