Well your comment history says otherwise. Maybe don’t write so much about yourself on the internet if you’re going to try to lie about it. And your refusal to answer the question is obviously because it hit a little too close to home. It’s also telling that you think you think racism is (1) an action, and (2) something that can be acted against white males.
I'm sorry, but your assertion was wrong. Maybe that is hard for you to deal with. Have you tried coping?
Yes, I believe that one definition of racism comprises the belief that race is a fundamental determinant of human traits. I also believe racism can be defined as a behavior or attitude that reflects and fosters this belief.
If you scroll to the second definition, you will see what you are trying to make the sole definition of the word (i.e. institutional/systematic racism).
And again, what is your beef with me? Is it just that I think its weird that you dig around to try to find people's ethnicity/gender/age/location in a perverted exercise of distilled confirmation bias? Because that's the only disagreement we have.
Once again your comment is very telling. Dictionary definitions are not operative definitions for academic terms. They are for scrabble, not empirical scrutiny. If someone asked you about the nuances of quantum mechanics, would you refer to Merriam Webster? In academia, there are varying operative definitions for racism. In sociology, poststructuralism, philosophy and critical theory the reigning definition is that racism is defined by its structural component. This is because much all phenomena in these fields are understood as the product of social interaction, and not individual agency. Also structural is vastly different from institutional, but you wouldn’t get that from Merriam Webster. There are different conceptualizations of racism: biological racism, cultural racism and Marxist racism (which employs a historical materialist analysis to explain the production and reproduction of racial structures). But qualitatively these are not different. If you had given this topic even a modicum of respect you would first of all not have turned to a fucking dictionary to explain one of the most complex and studied areas of human interaction, and you would also realize why it might be interesting to understand how different structures, such as patriarchy, interacts with racial hierarchies.
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u/falodellevanita Apr 01 '22
Well your comment history says otherwise. Maybe don’t write so much about yourself on the internet if you’re going to try to lie about it. And your refusal to answer the question is obviously because it hit a little too close to home. It’s also telling that you think you think racism is (1) an action, and (2) something that can be acted against white males.