It's still racism if the race you're talking about can't hear you. It's still racism if you're only joking with your friends. If you wouldn't say it in front of a person of the race you're referring to then it's not okay to say. Saying that everyone does it doesn't make it less wrong. This is when you need to be the change you want to see in the world.
I'll take this even further with the cheesy sayings because I rather like this one. A river starts out as a small stream. A movement starts out small like a stream and grows as person by person they realize that the way we did it was wrong. You may be one person, but you're adding to the stream. Eventually a stream becomes a river, a river can become a bay, and a bay joins the ocean.
Racism isn't okay and you shouldn't stand for it. I don't care how common place it might be. It exists and it shouldn't, we should know better by now.
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