Bill O'Reilly is more than likely a racist.

Kind Regards for your agreement, I will proceed with my Opening Statement, as well as Rebuttals.I will be debating that Bill O'Reilly more than likely is not a racist and will be the Con position in this debate. Opening Statement:While Bill O'Reilly may be rude, obnoxious and not well mannered when it comes to talking with his guests or blurring out his, mostly idiotic opinion, I by no means would say that O'Reilly can be considered a racist. I like watching some of his programs, simply because of the fact as to how seemingly easily he gets beaten in debate, but never backs down, yet I still have to see where O'Reilly has made a racial slur or an act of racism that actually was fully intentional and meant. And actually Racist.First of all I want so say, yes O'Reilly makes some really stupid comments. But quite often, his comments are actually quite sound. However, he is very disliked. And as such, people easily jump in to call him a racist. And because he often talks about racial issues, this is very easy for people to do. In fact, in one of his current 'issues' about left wing media painting the US to be a nation run by white supremacy, which O'Reilly tries to disprove, he states that "The real racism is looking away from what is really harming black Americans". I would say he is correct in saying that. Further more, O'Reilly advocates the healing process of white-black relationship. In fact, here () he is talking to the daughter of former US Shadow Senator and civil rights activist Jesse Jackson, a man who used to work for Martin Luther King, Jr. and is asking her why her father and other black rights advocates do not state that they want justice for all, whether black or white, and if this would not help the healing process immensely. Would a racist state these kind of things? A racist would not state that black poverty is an issue, they would ignore it. Here we have O'Reilly mocking white supremacist David Duke, former 'Grand Wizard' of the KKK. Why would O'Reilly do that, if he had 'similar' views to him, as Duke most definitely is racist. That makes no sense.. Here O'Reilly states that the majority of Muslims are peaceful, most certainly not a statement heard often by media nowadays. , but O'Reilly does state that Muslim nations need to take criticism for how they are acting about the 'ISIL' crisis and such. People who misunderstand what he says, will call him a racist. And that's exactly the problem. I will now conduct some rebuttals as to Pros claims:The hubcaps comment, while seemingly very shocking, when I tried to find a correlation between blacks and stealing hubcaps I could not find it. I could find black bears stealing hubcaps, but not people. Seemingly all races steal hubcaps, especially teens seem to do it, more out of fun though. So how is this racist? On the other hand, when I looked up 'fried chicken meme' or 'watermelon meme', it was all African Americans. Also, this 'joke' does not imply a superiority of whites over blacks and as such, as to definition of racist, does not make O'Reilly racist. As for the most unattractive women statement, to make this clear, Islam is not a race! Also, his sexual attraction has nothing to do with whether he is a racist or not. A homosexual male is not attracted to females, does that make him a racist? A black women does not think Asian men are attractive, does that make her a racist? This is his personal opinion, he also included a 'probably' and although this is a extremely stupid statement, it is not racist. The athletes, well, O'Reilly is partly correct with that. I would say it is an overstatement that they can't speak English, but most certainly the sports admissions do not have a high academic standard. These people attend because of sport, not academic. Watch Forrest Gump, though a movie, the same thing. However, stating a fact does not make one racist. If I state that 67% of black children grow up in single parent families, mostly with their mothers, and as such grow up in more or less dysfunctional families, does this make me racist? No, I am merely stating a fact. As for the 'wetbacks', lets put this into context. "We'd save lives because Mexican wetbacks, whatever you want to call them, the coyotes--they're not going to do what they're doing now, all right, so people aren't going to die in the desert." Seemingly what he wanted to say was 'coyotes', as he stated 'the coyotes' afterwards. Now, Coyotaje is the term referring to the practice of people smuggling across the US-Mexican Border, while the 'coyotes' are the people smugglers. O'Reilly, on this instance was talking about the practice of people smuggling and how the people smugglers bring the people they smuggle into unnecessary danger. I don't see how this is racist. Furthermore, 'racial' slurs such as 'wetback' do not imply a racial superiority, or how do they? As such, and as to the definition of 'racist' by Pro, anyone using the term 'wetback' would as such not be racist. Conclusion:O'Reilly may be stupid, however him being called a racist has more to do with misunderstandings and the fact that he is extremely disliked, and what way is easier to safely slander and individual than to simply call them racist. If I state that whites are more 'intelligent' than blacks I will be called a racist. If I know state that this is because of education, illiteracy in African countries and such, am I still a racist then or not, merely because I added facts. The problem is that this is the case with O'Reilly. Though he makes a lot of stupid arguments, many are sound if you analyse them. However, most people will not do that, especially not when they dislike the person and will simply stick by calling them racist. Now, if you add this up with some of O'Reilly's 'greater' moments, surely you can understand why many people perceive him as racist. However, that does not mean that he actually is. Con thus stands by the opinion that Bill O'Reilly is more than likely not a racist, as there simply is no proof as to O'Reilly stating that the 'white race' is superior to any other race. O'Reilly is very disliked and as such he often gets called a racist, without actually analysing what he actually said and meant. Kind Regards to Pro, I am looking forward to the final round!