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Originally Posted by GGG
Are you referring to torture post on racial prejudice versus racism as changing a loaded term?
Or are you referring to people claiming racism against white people changing the meaning of a loaded term?
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I'm referring to Torture's post, which reflects an attempt to re-define racism such that it cannot be applied to bigotry against certain races. Notwithstanding the difference between certain types of racist animus, their motivations, context and impact, bigotry on grounds of skin colour is all racism and the author is simply attempting to redefine the word in a way that's politically useful to the ideology he espouses, because the word "racism" itself has a lot of power. If you can convince people that it can only be used in the way that you and the people who are politically aligned with you want to use it, you win the day.
And again, in a depressing attempt to head off the stupid or intellectually dishonest, that should not be taken as any suggestion that the vast majority of white people who whine about "reverse racism" are anything but completely full of ####.