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Humanist_Activist

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3. True, but I just find the attempt at redefinition to be absurd, taken to its logical outcome...

Fri Nov 13, 2015, 04:16 PM

Nov 2015

no one person can be labeled as racist, only institutions that have the power to discriminate against others, based on race.

It makes the language clumsy, what do you call a KKK member? Or a member of the Nation of Islam?

Its easy to say they are bigots, but bigots against what and for what reason?

The word racist is a shortcut and useful word to label bigots against specific races and race supremacists of all types.

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Definitions of Racism [View all] Chitown Kev Nov 2015 OP

Look, Kid, it's obvious what you are doing Android3.14 Nov 2015 #1

+1 FLPanhandle Nov 2015 #2

True, but I just find the attempt at redefinition to be absurd, taken to its logical outcome... Humanist_Activist Nov 2015 #3

IIRC, for a while Chitown Kev Nov 2015 #5

Yeah, though the term "Anti-Semitism" is pretty much a special case... Humanist_Activist Nov 2015 #7

LOL, the number of people Chitown Kev Nov 2015 #9

Oh, I've had that lined used on me here on DU. Humanist_Activist Nov 2015 #10

And yet you claim that your definition which isn't the principle definition mythology Nov 2015 #4

I make no such claim. Chitown Kev Nov 2015 #6

Find a new shtick. tabasco Nov 2015 #8

people choose the definitions that support their own views nt msongs Nov 2015 #11

kind of...yes Chitown Kev Nov 2015 #12