So, you really want a discussion on racism?

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If a person ever laughed at or told an ethnic joke, are they automatically and forever racists?

Not the point really.
Jokes are social interactions, norm setting nodes.
Racist jokes collectively support unnatural human conditions.
There was a time when cripples were the subject of jokes too.
In America we did purge ourselves for the largest part of joking about disabilities.
We are not there yet.
When a Racist Joke is felt by those listening to be just as cruel, and depraved, as those done away with cripple jokes then, we will be on our way to a better place.
Do you think the Wayans 90’s comedy skit “Handi boy” would fly today?
By the way “Handi boy” flew, in the skit.

Yes, jokes are part of the point because many of them were based on stereotypes. If we laughed at stereotypes then, when did we stop laughing at them?