This will get ugly: can a non white person be racist?!

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57. If we refuse to use language that is the societal standard, then communication breakdowns

Again, the English language standard for racism and the textbook definition is as follows:

: poor treatment of or violence against people because of their race

: the belief that some races of people are better than others

This is what people are talking about when they're talking about Racism. You can call an apple a tomato, but people aren't going to know what you're talking about and if you keep calling it a tomato they'll just ignore you. A bunch of academics who've had their heads stuck in textbooks for years can try and change the meaning of the word, but it doesn't change unless society does.

Now the question remains are POC capable of these two things, which is the current English standard for racism:

--poor treatment of or violence against people because of their race

--the belief that some races of people are better than others

The answer is yes, and it happens almost as much as it does in the white community. Thus, PoC can be racist.

If you want to describe systematically perpetrated injustices en masse, then just tack on a systemic in front of the word racism for clarity.

As far as systemic injustices in mass go, it is certainly possible for a black or a latino neighborhood to "oppress" a white person in a group setting or neighborhood, but society as a whole systemically benefits whites (biggest group with most power) more at the moment so oppression happens disproportionately to people who aren't that group (minorities).