Originally Posted by Paedantic Basterd

How racism is defined academically differs from field to field and from professor to professor. I was confused by the idea that "you can't be racist towards white people" until I probed deep enough into the issue to learn that under some working definitions, "racism" refers not to prejudice or discrimination alone, but to participation in or benefit from a societal or institutionalized system that racism is a product of.

The idea being that because white people are always in some way benefiting from such a system whereas people of colour have less equal, more mixed (usually worse) experiences in the same system, it's not possible to be racist towards white people--because that involves setting up a society and institution in which their whiteness results in their oppression, which describes probably no society currently in existence.

Not an expert by any means, but this is my understanding of what people mean when they say you can't be racist to whites. It's not because those people are libtards, it's just that they have a different working understanding of the term "racism" that is much more nuanced than the word the common public knows and engages with.

Originally Posted by djchameleon

You can be prejudice against whites but not racist in the same way as having systems set up against you. Yeah Ped explained it well though.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.

Originally Posted by Mord

My household is set up for my whiteness (family name is actually White) because I'm white and ked is white and my children are white. But my neighborhood does not have systems set up that favor me. To say nothing of the nation.

Originally Posted by RoxyRollah

IMO I don't know jack-**** though so don't listen to me.

Originally Posted by Franco Pepe Kalle

The problem is that most police officers in America are psychopaths.

Originally Posted by The Batlord

You're a terrible dictionary.

Originally Posted by The Batlord

See this is why it is a good idea to use different words to mean different things and not to change definitions to suit our whims, because it's confusing. This is why evolution is "just a theory".

Originally Posted by mord

Actually, I like you a lot, Nea. That's why I treat you like ****. It's the MB way.

Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre

Now, on the topic of redefining words to fit an agenda, how do people feel about some college campuses telling students that racism is defined as systematic oppression towards a race rather than bigotry towards a race thus pushing the idea that bigotry towards white people is more tolerated because it isn't racism because white people aren't systematically oppressed?

Originally Posted by Mord

The Japs don't like the darkies, that's for sure.

EDIT: The yaks use them to sell coke in Roppongi.

Originally Posted by RoxyRollah

IMO I don't know jack-**** though so don't listen to me.

Originally Posted by Franco Pepe Kalle

The problem is that most police officers in America are psychopaths.

Originally Posted by The Batlord

You're a terrible dictionary.

Originally Posted by Paedantic Basterd

How racism is defined academically differs from field to field and from professor to professor. I was confused by the idea that "you can't be racist towards white people" until I probed deep enough into the issue to learn that under some working definitions, "racism" refers not to prejudice or discrimination alone, but to participation in or benefit from a societal or institutionalized system that racism is a product of.

The idea being that because white people are always in some way benefiting from such a system whereas people of colour have less equal, more mixed (usually worse) experiences in the same system, it's not possible to be racist towards white people--because that involves setting up a society and institution in which their whiteness results in their oppression, which describes probably no society currently in existence.

Not an expert by any means, but this is my understanding of what people mean when they say you can't be racist to whites. It's not because those people are libtards, it's just that they have a different working understanding of the term "racism" that is much more nuanced than the word the common public knows and engages with.

Originally Posted by Neapolitan

But all those definitions have evolved. If we are going to talk honestly talk about instutional racism just ask yourselves "How many Chinese women won Miss Black America?"

Originally Posted by Mord

White people don't get a pass. Your information is outdated about twenty years. Just the other day, a white acquaintance of mine was in a meeting and called his secretary Mochizuki (that's her last name) instead of Mochizuki-san. The J-boss stopped the meeting and literally said, "You call her Mochzuki-SAN. Remember who you are, white man." Intimating that he is lower than Japanese because of his race.

With the rise of nationalism in Japan, all foreigners are kind of melding into one group.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.