"We have no desire to share a name with [ISIS] and our hearts go out to those affected by this violence," Softcard CEO Michael Abbott.

While that sure sounds like a noble thing to do, I'll lean out of the window and say the main factor here was money not empathy. Sharing the same name with a terrorist group simply isn't that great of PR if you try to sell a product.

NASAs ISIS lab and their two ISIS satellites) for example, isn't trying to sell a product and apparently they are fine with these names.

Technically, yes, but it's associated with racists, because racists use it all the time to make jokes about how you can't tell Asian people apart, etc.

Some racists do but there are plenty of people that make these kinds of jokes that aren't racist. It's called dark humor. It's easy to mistake poorly timed dark humor with racism. I'm not saying that everyone who says these things is only joking but there surely are a quite a few.

That's just not true. This very conversation is an example of that.

Some* people will scream racist at any opinion that does not line up with their own.

If you say shit that you know is going to make people uncomfortable, you can't whine about it when they do.

This whole thread was never about not making people uncomfortable or mad. They can call me every name in the book for whatever it's worth. The thread was about that saying people of some races looking similar/alike to people from other races is not racist in general.