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I don't think so. As a non native English speaker, I am happy when people help me to improve my English. So I totally would do the same for other people, I don't think that makes me a racist but rather someone that cares about language as it allows me to better understand intention, such as racist ones.
It's about context, my guy. As a non-native speaker, you're probably not making the same English speaking "mistakes" as natives. If you're correcting native speakers about English as a non-native, you're probably going to be more often wrong than right, and since you don't know societal context, that's really bad too. You people have to stop dumbing shit down and ignoring all the context with everything.
You realize that I never said that I would correct people's English, right? You realize that I have a mother tongue, right? Maybe you shouldn't be so arrogant and complain about dumbing down shit when you don't understand that non-native English speakers have a mother tongue. Also societal context??? Dude, you understand that societal context is dependent on the situation. If I am exposed to something as a non native speaker on e.g. the internet, that something doesn't exclusive exist in the societal context that the author might intended it to be. And also if I am a non native speaker but I live in the country for 45years that my understanding of the societal context could easily be equal or better than a native speaker's understanding, as e.g. I was able to contrast the 2 contexts that I am familiar with and that might exposes social notions that a native speaker is not actively aware of. What I am trying to express, your response seem to be pretty dumbed down.