For you personally, when you use the word racist, you mean something closer to:
A. Discrimination based on race
B. Racial prejudice from those in power
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A.
B is:
- hard to grasp; power dynamic analysis is ivory tower, A is easy to spot and decry
- a license to morally disequivocate the harassment of majority groups
- a shift with no benefit, no evidence that the new def creates a better world, instead creates a new priv group
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B serves primarily to ensure that groups are more consistently identified as monolithic entities of privilege or oppression (white/black,) and also fails to bake-in that power is local, not universal: a white person in Nigeria or North Korea for instance does not have same priv.
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I had difficulty deciding. But definitely B. Now, the definition of “those in power” is the real question. Like, what kind of power?
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A. You don't have to be in any position of authority to discriminate based on race - and those in power discriminating based on race are doing the same, just at a larger scale.
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I mean, for *your followers* it would be incredibly surprising for it not to be skewed this way
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I chose A. There's an argument to be made that racial prejudice without power can't harm others, and to condemn it may even hinder the emancipatory struggle of those who tend to be the victims of racial prejudice from those in power.
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