Heard the most "charming" definition of racism from this guy I had to work with over the summer.
I'm going to have to use what I remember as his example because I was actively trying to ignore everything he said ever, but from what I remember he said, he was speaking to the son of another co-worker who is Mexican (I think...I should probably pay more attention to these things, but they don't seem to matter much) and commenting that the Mexican gangs in L.A. are driving out the black gangs. When the co-worker's son basically went "good", "that's racism, wanting your own group to do well".
Or something like that. Basically, my understanding of his intent was to redefine "racism" into "people's tendency to stick near other people who share their racial and cultural background." I imagine this is in order to form the basis for a case that everybody's racist, so racism is okay.
I'd give him more of the benefit of the doubt, but he's a 9/11 truther who believes that Europeans were on the Americas before any "Native Americans" and that CPS takes kids away from parents who spank them because "they know [those parents] care about their kids" as part of some bid by communists to create a global communistic government; also, Sandy Hook was a sham, since he's never seen any bodies or autopsies. I'm not sure if he believes it was all a set up and nobody was killed, or if the government actually went in and killed people. I'm inclined to believe the latter, because he's an asshole.
Seriously, fuck that guy. Really wish I'd had an mp3 player to more effectively ignore him, because there was more bullshit that I've subsequently tried to block from memory. Oh right, microwaves, of all things. They destroy all the nutrients in food; you can tell because if you microwave water to boiling, let it cool, and water a plant seed with that water, the seed won't grow. I'd test this for myself using actual science (control group, group watered with water boiled over a stove, other groups) but I just don't care, and I don't have any seeds.
Worst summer ever.