timdiggerm said:

CP3S said:

Bingowings said:

Racial epithets are only bigoted when they are attached to a history of repression.

No.

Example?

Were you asking for me to give an example of racism without a history of repression?

The very idea that a history of repression must be involved in order for something to be racist is absolutely ridiculous.

In his attempt at splitting hairs, I think Bingo is overlooking the fact that prejudice usually coincides with oppressive actions, which is probably why he has a hard time separating the too. But that doesn't mean you can't have racism without oppression, it is just improbable. It is rare that one comes without the other. You say there is no movement for the rights of fat people, that is only because there are no rights that they are being withheld from them that they need to fight for. Doesn't mean people are not prejudice against them. Just ask any obese person and they will tell you about the crap they put up with. This isn't racism simply because weight has nothing to do with race.

It is ludicrous to say that calling someone from Japan "slant eyes" wouldn't be racist had we not thrown them into prison camps post-Pearl Harbor, or some other such nonsense. Prejudice against one race by another, no matter how major or minor, verbal or physical, is still racism.

Anyway, I am pretty sure Bingo is just having a laugh at this point; which is why I originally only answered his prior comment with "No". I have a sneaking suspicion he doesn't even believe what he is saying. So the above post was more for the benefit of others. To fall back into ridiculous fanboyishness: evidence of the prejudice against Wookies is present in the original films. Beside the "Where are you taking this... thing" and probably some other small things I am forgetting, Boba Fett's costume features "braided Wookie scalps", which definitely gives us the indication that there is in fact some degree of oppression.