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Hahaha
You claim the word racism is meaningless and then seek to exclude the social aspects of a social construct. You want to equate racial bigotry (an individual act) with racism (a social construct) in order to ignore the very real social impacts of racial bigotry by the majority power - real, socially impactful, racism.
It is you, the ignorant regarding sociology, that reduce the term to near meaningless by equating an individual action with a social construct. That's ironic.
So, tell us... is racism merely individual racial bigotry or is there more to it?
Lastly... if you're looking for real racism... look for someone claiming the term has no meaning. That's a common defense of racists.
It is overuse of the word that obscures its meaning.
And it is the users of ad hominem attacks that have no argument.
Racism can be individual, institutional, or both.