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Equating racism with discrimination based on skin colour and calling all other forms xenophobia will only make you confused.
Many species are divided into taxonomical subspecies (races) which clearly differ in terms of intelligence, or aggression, or sociality, or whatever. The question isn't whether races are different, but whether homo sapiens can reasonably be divided into such subspecies. That's a scientific question, but several of your statements such as "racism is crazy" and "if it's not superficial, it's not racism" strike me as naïve and motivated by some weird sense of moral superiority instead.
Then quote the science.
I don't understand what you want me to quote, or why. Can you be more specific?
"The question isn't whether races are different, but whether homo sapiens can reasonably be divided into such subspecies. "
Well.can it?
Current scientific consensus amongst those who seem to be the least driven by ideological agenda is "no", except of course if you talk about extinct subspecies. Surely you know this?