Always seemed a little redundant and semantically pedantic to define racism as an abuse of power when terms like “systematic racism” already exist. Also seems a little intellectually dishonest to use a definition of a word that everyone hasn’t agreed to before the conversation
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My answer’s A, but the reason a lot of thinkers use it in the B sense is bc most significant cases of discrimination come from the powerful. Yeah, in a simple sense, someone with no power can discriminate against someone with power, but it rarely has a serious, negative impact
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Actually, the more I think about it, the less likely I’d be to call something racist that doesn’t have serious, negative impact. Racism is hefty and is serious, not about frivolous things. So maybe I’m shifting to B.
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I would like to believe the word itself is hatred towards race while also believing superiority over another. The affect of being racist towards a race that has a higher place in society, economically/socially/culturally, can't really be looked as the same meaning. 1/2
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Like swinging up or swinging down. Is it a fight if someone is on the ground getting kicked than the grounded one is crying for help? I wouldn't like to think so.
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n is still pretty small rn but I’m curious to see how this pans out. I imagine a lot of the people who get chewed out for claiming racism against white people are claiming the former but it’s often interpreted as the latter
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^^interpretation claim based on some research I did for a class half a decade ago plus trends in discourse, so take with a grain of salt
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Both meanings are valid, A is the more commonly used definition though. It's an issue when people conflate the two as if they're identical
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I don't think it's either. It's when you consciously or unconsciously believe another is lesser because of their race. A lot of people, for example, accept imbalances in prison system because they believe black people are inheritantly more violent and prone to crime.
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Or how people interpret crimes committed by black and white people. With black crimes, people generally assume they did something wrong (violent nature). With white crimes, they assume something is wrong with them (mental illness). They already attribute criminal to black.
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