Because it's a lie, through and through. Racism would have us believing that the color of your skin, the make-up of your genes or the place your ancestors came from can possibly determine the extent to which you are capable of influencing the world around you. The only thing between a person and his ability to change the world is the extent to which he buys into lies like these.

any form of personal discrimination is offensive.

Because I'm overly sensitive and incapable of taking things in stride.

It's old ways and it's just tired.

Judgement before knowledge. Any kinda "-ism" that reflects this.

Being ignorant in that way is very offensive to me.

I happen to be a member of a minority.

Because it's irrational and there is no excuse for it. We are all the same, the only difference is that some of us have different skin colours and physical features and languages than others. Racism, like homophobia has no place in our so-called modern and forward thinking world.

I don't care what other people think

Because I believe you should love (or hate) someone for who THEY are on the inside...not the stereotypes of their race, age, gender, financial status, religion, creed, social status. This is such a silly thought to me that it infuriates me. We can all truly get along, society is too immature to believe this.

I can tolerate racism as I can tolerate any other system of beliefs. It's not offensive to me. It would be nice in a perfect world if everyone loved each other but this is impossible.

I don't take offense to it because I don't care.

Because it's born of ignorance.

Any form of division is detrimental to the collective.

Because it is an attempt to ridicule and degrade another fellow human being because of his/her nationality or the colour of their skin.

Racism is far more than just "offensive". It's detrimental in every conceivable way--not only to the individual or group of people whom racism is practiced against--but also to the individual who practices it as well, and ultimately, to society as a whole. There's no beauty in racism--everything about it is very ugly indeed because it is a by-product of a warped ideology of racial supremacy, which implicitly warrant them--they believe--the right to impose, by any means they see fit, their will upon people whom they regard as being [less] or [inferior]. Honestly, can you think of anything good that can be said about racism?. Before you answer this question, think about its malign legacy which has at its roots a set of premises that were first conceived, then rationalized to justify its existence and practice by people motivated by ill will. You have heard some times people saying: "Man you're still living in the past" or "forget the past and move on". That's easy to say if you have never been a victim of it. If you have never lived under the Jim Crow law, in North-America, or under the Apartheid regime in South-Africa. Surely we would love to say that racism is a "thing of the past"; but that would be self-deluding--for we all know better. The best thing, and possibly the only thing, we can say about racism is tha "we have made progress". I don't know what would that mean to whites, but to blacks it means somethng akin to having a 12 inches long knife stuck in your neck then through trials and tribulations we've been able to pull out about 7 or 8 inches of it. I would like to remain optimistic, but lately I've seen some things that keep reminding me of the past.

racism = ignorance. Actually, its more than that, its ignorance that someone chooses. To choose to remain ignorant is ridiculous.

Because of the ignorance... we will never reach world peace with ignorance like racism..

Because it limits or reduces the person being looked at to just their appearance, and denies the person doing the looking a clear vision of what the other person is. Both are hurt, but the person being discriminated AGAINST is hurt more directly and often in a lasting way. The racist viewer is hurt because their world is so small and angry. One day maybe we will rise beyond racism.