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@tynan
No, I promise being racist is not a crime, I promise ! honestly ! :)
Telling your girlfriend: *"these fucking Chinese bastards, they come over here and think they own the place, all they do is bring disease and scrounge off the state." * - is simply not a crime, nor should it be.
Only when it comes into conflict with British law, you are free to discriminate on grounds of race, gender, height, social status, beauty, wealth, health, age, colour, religion, ideology, politics, sexuality (absolutely anything) . . . . as long as you are not in breach of British law.
We are drifting into the foggy philosophical waters of definitions, where many an argument has run aground. :)
Racism is certainly not illegal in terms of 'defined behaviours' or 'actions' (is not 'actions' simply 'defined behaviours' ?).
Whichever way we cut it, racism is simply not illegal any more than sexism or isolationism, xenophobia or misthanthropy is illegal.