Teacher's 'terrorist' joke no laughing matter for student

Explain the difference for us.

A Racist believes that geneticly one race is superior to another, a bigot just simply dislikes persons of another race because of their race or racial stereotypes.

I see, I'll be sure to use the correct phrasing in the future. I just don't expect anyone else around me will, because the common usage of 'racist' is more or less the definition of bigotry.

Well you could of course just call any disagreement I may have with liberal views, racist views. Which seems to be the case quite often these days.

So you are a racist!

lol well yes, in that context I believe I am just over 50% racist.

I'm about 35% 'racist/bigot'. I am just annoyed by.. "Monkeys" (NOT blacks, you know the difference between blacks and 'niggas', right?) at school. It's just fucking rediculous.

However, Look at most sports, Black people ARE genetically better than whites. HAHA my friend just changed my wallpaper & home page to Nazi stuff. The Nazi website and some pic that says "WHITE POWER!" and has the swastika in the middle.

If we're being purely semantic, the term racism covers both definitions. It may refer to someone who adheres to the doctrine that inherent differences between the races exist rendering one race superior to the others. It can also mean simple bigotry. Neither definition is wrong, and colloquially the latter is far more common.

And anyone who thinks racism is dead is blind. I have been spit and slurred at from a truck on a university campus. I have been denied service at a local restaurant, with incontrovertible evidence that it was due to the color of my skin. These are not isolated instances, though these are the two most conspicuous experiences that I can recall at my university. Subtler forms of racism are so frequent that they are simply prosaic. Though racism may not be a novel concept, it is an unnecessary affliction on humanity. The passive approach advocated by Sheerx neglects and exacerbates a serious problem. Vituperation is the only appropriate response to racism.