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Originally Posted by manwiches
One of my Caucasian friend's just brought up a good point.
He had a love for country music, and his minor coach used to come in and and say 'Turn that white boy honky tonk sh*t off!'. I guess that should label him a racist too?
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Not really a good point.
My history is a little rough so maybe your Caucasian friend can remind us when white cowboys were systemically discriminated against and disadvantaged?
And I'll back it up:
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Assumptions and stereotypes about white people are examples of racial prejudice, not racism. Racial prejudice refers to a set of discriminatory or derogatory attitudes based on assumptions deriving from perceptions about race and/or skin colour. Thus, racial prejudice can indeed be directed at white people (e.g., white people can’t dance) but is not considered racism because of the systemic relationship of power.
When backed with power, prejudice results in acts of discrimination and oppression against groups or individuals. In Canada, white people hold this cultural power due to Eurocentric modes of thinking, rooted in colonialism, that continue to reproduce and privilege whiteness. (See our definition of Whiteness)
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http://www.aclrc.com/myth-of-reverse-racism