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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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CMV: It is completely possible to be racist to people of your own race

Racism:
prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism by an individual, community, or institution against a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that is a minority or marginalized


I hope the title is clear but more and more I'm coming across scenarios where people think it's OK to make a racist judgment/joke/argument and then defend it by saying "But I'm that race/background". In example I am White British, and it WOULD be racist of me to say I dislike White British people because of XYZ reasons, as i am making assumptions and generalising people based on their race. 

Most recently someone at work was giving a presentation and did a silly little, classic Egyptian hieroglyphic dance thing. Someone passed a small comment that it's a bit stereotypical and unfunny and they responded with "I'm allowed to do that, I'm Egyptian"
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This is called internalized racism. It’s well-documented. Was the aforementioned friend born and raised in Egypt or around Egyptian people? Because there’s a difference between using an ethnicity you might *be* but weren’t brought up in to justify stereotypes vs POC joking about their experiences in a way that would be racist coming from a white person.

Like, it’s pretty distasteful to make jokes about all the black people in the ‘hood’, but a black person who grew up in an impoverished area making jokes about other black people who also grew up in poverty is fine imo.