As someone with an actual PhD in sociology, I'd say you shouldn't trust any sociologist who suggests sociology is a discipline full of fixed definitions & concepts. It isn't, and anybody who suggests otherwise should be sent back to remedial sociology class.https://twitter.com/tootsiekannah/status/973324950143578112 …
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I need to finish this by saying that none of this means that the "prejudice plus power" formulation isn't useful. It is useful. The loathing of a black slave for white people isn't the same thing as white people's loathing of black slaves, for example.
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It's just you don't get to tell the sociologist or social psychologist who is using the term "racism" in its normal sense to mean racially motivated bigotry that they are somehow using language wrong. They're not.
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Note racism's new definition is used by activists to deny the validity of the old one. Universities and activist communities work in tandem to surreptitiously shift the rules of who can be held to account for racial misconduct, starting with "Its just the sociological definition"
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Indeed. It's simply a masked demand for social deference to the preachers
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