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Without institutional backing, it's mere bigotry or prejudice. Without institutional backing, most of the concept regarding oppression is lost and the term is reduced to an overly-simple description for that which implies so much more than mere powerless bigotry.
It's the 'sociological definition'.
Of course the old "sticks and stones..." applies. I just think many will agree that we're sick of the double standard. It's a laugh that so far the evidence and testimony only shows TM used racial slurs, yet the prosecution wants to paint Z as the racist.
Some sociologists have defined racism as a system of group privilege. In Portraits of White Racism, David Wellman has defined racism as “culturally sanctioned beliefs, which, regardless of intentions involved, defend the advantages whites have because of the subordinated position of racial minorities”.[23] Sociologists Noël A. Cazenave and Darlene Alvarez Maddern define racism as “...a highly organized system of 'race'-based group privilege that operates at every level of society and is held together by a sophisticated ideology of color/'race' supremacy.
The title says it all.... do you believe calling someone a "Creepy Ass Cracker" is racist???????
Where in the world did you drag this bunch of balony up? With this definition then KKK's are not racist because they have no institutional backing.
Racial bigotry against blacks has state institutional backing in the US. It is not gone.
I really don't know much about that case, so I can't comment on it. I didn't realize this thread was even related to that.
Racial bigotry against blacks has state institutional backing in the US. It is not gone.
Here's another way to see what I'm talking about:
Racism is an ISM. It's not just bigotry or prejudice, it's a system. It cannot be enforced or enacted by an individual or minority without majority power, it requires state institutional backing.
Examples?
i would like to know when racism became a crime.
since it has to do with a person's moral and social behavior.
You think racism in the US is gone, a thing of the past? No, state institutional discrimination still exists in this country (against blacks), through the majority oppressing minorities and exercising a system of privilege.
When the media made it one.
So basically what you are saying is that nobody in the U.S. can possibly be racist because there is not systematic oppression in the U.S.
Please tell the media this.
There is state institutional backing against minorities in the US today. Racism still exists today.
So basically what you are saying is that nobody in the U.S. can possibly be racist because there is not systematic oppression in the U.S.
Please tell the media this.
You think racism in the US is gone, a thing of the past? No, state institutional discrimination still exists in this country (against blacks), through the majority oppressing minorities and exercising a system of privilege.
The Jeopardy music is playing.......
Do you deny that racism against blacks is a significant element of society in the US today? Permeating all levels of society.
Its not meant to be a debate about the case.
Its meant to be a debate about the fact that people seem to think it is acceptable. The double standard.
And then again, anything that is the white person towards black person/black person towards white person equivalent immediately gets dismissed by the "sociology" argument, which pretty much says that because white people had power in the U.S. during periods of oppression generations before my lifetime, I can be racist but those of other racist cannot be.
The definition of racism is however it is being used currently.... the meaning of words change over time, this one has.
Whites have not "oppressed" blacks in my lifetime, so that sociology argument **** doesn't apply to me.
Do you deny that racism against blacks is a significant element of society in the US today? Permeating all levels of society.
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