You can either keep 'correcting' ppl & denounce dictionaries as tools of eg patriarchal white supremacy or u can engage with what ppl mean.
For the purpose of the conversation! eg 'You're calling 'racism' what I'd call 'institutional racism' Lets discuss it now.
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Then this form of racism can be discussed. If you want to have a convo specifically abt definitions of racism, obv can do this.
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OK so you call it an apple, I call it an orange, now let's have a useful discussion...
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Yes! We don't have to agree on the correct word for something to discuss something. We just have to both know what other means.
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The underlying reality matters. So let's talk about racism from POC. POC can't be racist! OK, institutional racism it is then.
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Yes, it does. That's what we need to be discussing. Not always whether we're using the right words to discuss it.
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Once you accept these different terms you are in some way accepting this alternate reality, and altering the debate.
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You don't have to accept them generally or commit to not arguing against them to put aside semantics & discuss what they refer to.
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