by the way,anyone can be racist. If you think racism is just a white people thing, then youre racist

[basquebromance]

playing the race card is racist in itself!

 

[IM2]

"Racism is a systemic, societal, institutional, omnipresent, and epistemologically embedded phenomenon that pervades every vestige of our reality" . "Racism encompasses economic, political, social, and cultural structures, actions, and beliefs that systematize and perpetuate an unequal distribution of privileges, resources, and power between white people and people of color, with whites the beneficiaries of that unequal distribution."

Why Can’t We All Just Be Individuals?: Countering the Discourse of Individualism in Antiracist Education

Author Robin DiAngelo

 

[ptbw forever]

"Racism is a systemic, societal, institutional, omnipresent, and epistemologically embedded phenomenon that pervades every vestige of our reality" . "Racism encompasses economic, political, social, and cultural structures, actions, and beliefs that systematize and perpetuate an unequal distribution of privileges, resources, and power between white people and people of color, with whites the beneficiaries of that unequal distribution."

Why Can’t We All Just Be Individuals?: Countering the Discourse of Individualism in Antiracist Education

Author Robin DiAngelo

Ironically idiots like Robin are making the case that even their ridiculous definition of racism applies mostly to people like them.

White people don’t have the power to be the most overtly racist group of people and then literally use the entire education system to effectively rewrite the definition of the word in a manner that makes people think it doesn’t apply to us in any given situation.

“Anti-racist education” is anti-white oppression.

 

[Paul Essien]

playing the race card is racist in itself!

Black people can be racist as an idea but not in practice

Although a black person in an authority position can discriminate against a white person, this kind of thing rarely happens because

1. White people don't share power. So black people in positions of power are rare relative to whites in power.
2. And even when you do find black people in positions of power, there are white people above those black people who are white and who protect white people and and who would not stand for racism or discrimination against white people.
3. Even in cases where a black man sat on top of a power structure (as with former President Obama), he was not free to do anything to oppress white people (even if he wanted to), given his own need to attract white support in order to win election or pass any of his policy agenda.

There are no institutional structures in the U.S. in which black people exercise final and controlling authority: not in the school systems, labor market, justice system, housing markets, financial markets, or media. As such, the ability of black folks to oppress white people (or anyone) does not exist.

Questions ?

"What would happen if a black person when out and shot and killed white people and then said he did it because he hated white people. That's racism"

That is an individual acting as an individual and there is no system in place that will support his right to harm whites.

However, white policeman murder black people often and get away with it because there is a system in place that allows them to do it. (the courts, the police, the judge, the prison systems)

So racism on the part of black folks, even the most vicious, is pretty impotent.

Let's say a black man hates white people

OK. What kind of power does he have? None. He is in a position to kill no one, and if he were to try he would go to jail. Forever. That’s not power. Racism is when you can deny people jobs, housing, health care, decent educations, or their physical freedom via the justice system, thereby wrecking their lives.

And there are virtually no black folks who can do any of that. But there are white folks in positions to do those things, and who do them regularly,

"OK. What about majority black countries like Nigeria, Ghana and the Caribbean, places were black people are in charge and have power. They could practice systematic racism to whites"

Racism to whites even in those places is limited by the reality of global economics and the desire for good relations with the West.

So when people talk about black people racist what they're really talking about is name calling. That's it.

 

[Correll]

"Racism is a systemic, societal, institutional, omnipresent, and epistemologically embedded phenomenon that pervades every vestige of our reality" . "Racism encompasses economic, political, social, and cultural structures, actions, and beliefs that systematize and perpetuate an unequal distribution of privileges, resources, and power between white people and people of color, with whites the beneficiaries of that unequal distribution."

Why Can’t We All Just Be Individuals?: Countering the Discourse of Individualism in Antiracist Education

Author Robin DiAngelo

That's is just lefty shit to justify calling their enemies racist.


THis is what racism is.



rac·ism
ˈrāˌsizəm/
noun

1. prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior.
   "a program to combat racism"
   synonyms: racial discrimination, racialism, racial prejudice, xenophobia, chauvinism, bigotry, casteism
   "Aborigines are the main victims of racism in Australia"
   • the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races.
     noun: racism
     "theories of racism"