The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #113211   Message #2412669
Posted By: Ruth Archer
13-Aug-08 - 01:50 PM
Thread Name: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout (temp.)
"it IS acceptable to question immigration, and NOT acceptable to brand someone as a racist for doing so. So your criticism IS false and defamatory."

It depends on what your grounds for questioning immigration are. If it's because immigrants are "felt to be a threat to one's cultural or racial integrity or economic well-being", then it constitutes racism.

You can't simply dismiss the OED's definition because you don't agree with it.