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Originally Posted by WhiteTiger
I may be mistaken...but isn't it a pretty common refrain these days that only white people can be racist because they're a majority and the colonialists.
Anyone not white is 'understandably prejudiced', but not 'racist', since "racist" was re-defined (by academics, at any rate) to mean that to be a racist required "prejudice + power", if you just have prejudice, you can't be racist anymore.
Am I misunderstanding the current academic definition of racism?
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Maybe, I've never heard of what you're talking about. I wasn't insinuating anything to do with definitions, just that too many white people look at other racism when racism committed by white people is brought up as a counterpoint.
Very few people tend to claim that only white people are racist, it is just highlighted (especially in the west) because we have the power, and showing other racism is not really much of a counter point or an aha moment.