Your short post brings up a lot of potential questions, but I'll just throw 2 of them out there to the void. 1) Why is criticism based on ethnicity off limits?

Your short post brings up a lot of potential questions, but I'll just throw 2 of them out there to the void. 1) Why is criticism based on ethnicity off limits? If I expressed that say Scandinavians were repugnant for generally not wanting to feed their house guests, would this be an unconscionable sin? Why should criticizing some group, while still recognizing that its members are individuals and may have their own differing views on feeding guests, be forbidden? 2) Is it possible for bad intentioned people to falsely conflate criticism of some group or even country's politics with racism? In American politics for instance, we all know what sort of name-calling happens to politicians that express a little too harsh opinions on a certain country, right?