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The only people who don't think he's a racist are people who are closeted racists themselves.
Non-racist people do not use slurs and epithets in hate when they are angry. They punch, swear, and call people other names without resorting to derogatory terms about race, sex, or age. If there is a seed in the brain for racial slurs to come out - even under extreme duress -, then you have racist tendencies.
You can argue that everyone makes mistakes and people can often do something wrong when pissed off, but that does not excuse him falling back into a racist mode when angered. Any apologists who say that it could happen to anyone obviously have never been targets of racism themselves, or if they have, feel that two wrongs make a right and that Richards' actions were justified by the offended hecklers calling him a 'cracker' in return.
On that note, this is not a double standard here, as they were just as in the wrong as he was.
Simply, no matter how pissed off or annoyed you are, resorting to racism, sexism or agism in any situation reduces you as a human being and shows what may be lurking underneath.
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