So a person who uses stereotypes is a racist? Well, yes a racist must use stereotypes but then again this is a very tricky area because stereotyping is normal human behaviour as a product of pattern recognition.

The same logic could be used to suppose that if I make a mother-in-law joke it means that I dislike or hate mother-in-laws.....Jokes shouldn't be used as proof of anything.

For example, some ethic comedians make jokes about 'black issues' or being Iranian, are they not stereotyping their own race? Isn't it racist to say that a black person can make jokes about 'black issues' but a white person can't because they are white? Is a black comedian racist if he says white people can't dance or jump? No he isn't.
The whole thing as a basis of proof doesn't stand up when it is examined.

The term 'racist' is thrown around way too easily, it should be kept for those who encourage hatred.

This said I much prefer an environment where racial jokes aren't used, but mainly because they can lead to unpleasantness and in the weak minded eventually a belief that they are more than just a joke.

I'd also like to point out, that my hate of Jim Davidson stems from the fact he's not actually funny. I quite like Roy Chubby Brown and Bernard Manning.

But Jim Davidson is funny, at best, in the way finding a lump on your testicals is funny (or waking up with no memory of the last 15 hours, covered in semen is funny).