You're still trying to sneak in connotations, notice how you seem to be trying to exclude the possibility that a statement you describe as racist could actually be true, or that an action you describe as racist could actually be rational.

I don't notice how I seem to be doing it, actually.

The statement I quoted:

There is a connotation that doing something racist or sexist means you're intentionally trying to hurt people, that you're a bad person instead of just making a mistake or being ignorant.

seems to imply that the only reason one would make a "racist" statement is either out of a desire to hurt people or out of ignorance.

Clever. It's actually a good analogy.

One difference is that the definition of bias as used on lw does explicitly include the requirement that they provide incorrect results, as such I've been providing you with links to the relevant lesswrong articles.

I'm really not getting defensive,

One reason I did that is so you could see how annoying arguments of the form:

"Why are you getting so defensive about my accusing you of bad thing X, X doesn't imply worse thing Y?"

are when you're on the receiving end of them.