DtG, yes, that is a helpful start for me, but please-- I am speaking from a good amount of experience actually working with a variety of groups on eliminating a variety of oppressions-- and it DOES operate below the level of intent. It is a form of racism when it operates that way. It is different in DEGREE from crimes of racism, but an ism is an ism is an ism, and they get buried inside us in our enculturation.

~S~