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Interesting, but wrong. True, reverse racism is bullshit, but its bullsit because the word racism is in a different class of words from bigot and prejudiced. The latter are individual characteristics, whereas racism describes a phenomena rooted in a historical inequality across entire segments of a population. A non-white who hates someone because they are white (disregarding for the moment whether those categories themselves actually hold up to interrogation) is a bigot, is bigoted, is prejudiced and is an asshole. But he or she is not engaging in racism. To use the word that way takes most of the power away from the word. And is it a mistake. White people get pissed when I explain this because they get some kind of vague impression that racial minorities are somehow getting away with something. But they arent and thats not true.
Posted on: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 04:18:52 +0000

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