Was Greece the birthplace of humanity?

[Mav]

So are "race" and "racist" becoming increasingly meaningless when we really mean biased, prejudiced, judgmental, discriminatory, mean spirited, ignorant and plenty of other more meaningful words that can be applied to people callously abusing any number of different groups? I fear "racist" could be becoming just a trite tag that gets trotted out  and is starting to gloss over the real motivations that drive it?

Personally, I'd apply 'racist' to derogatory comments regarding somebody's country or region of origin or faith where that is largely linked to the former.  When people talk about Muslims, for instance, mostly this refers to Muslims from the Middle East and tends to be another way of saying 'Arabs'. For instance, Mohammad Ali was rarely a target of such comments. I think that Indians and Pakistanis can definitely be racist towards the other. And obviously where someone's appearance is different because of their geographical origins, derogatory comments concerning those differences are racist.

PS: I should say that my comments are in the abstract rather than about GIC's joke.  I was dealing more with Trump-style bald-faced racist comments.