Part of the problem with "racism equals prejudice plus power" is you get the absurd situation where encouraging people to "kill all whites", and meaning it, might not be racist whereas perpetrating some loosely defined microaggression would be racist.
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Surely all speech requires some base assumptions, and people agree to some common understandings. So the fact that no one means "killallwhites" could justify using "racism" to include "power", even if there is a hypothetical way it could be incoherent. Maybe.
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It would justify saying that seeing racism as including power is conceptually useful. But for me it functions as a reductio to the idea that it must be conceptualised that way.
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