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Originally Posted by cannon7
That wasn't the original argument. Don't think anyone was arguing an equivalency.
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Then what on earth was your point of bringing into the conversation instances of past racial prejudice against Irish and Italian immigrants in the first place?
But I am also interested in hearing more about this:
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Originally Posted by cannon7
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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
This is post-modernist identity politic nonsense. Fine if you believe it, but only a matter of opinion and not fact.
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What of this description do you take issue with, and why?