by Harold » Thu Jul 30, 2020 8:04 pm
fapsara wrote: ↑Sun Jul 26, 2020 11:21 am
Harold wrote: ↑Sat Jul 25, 2020 1:45 pm
Experts define racism as prejudice and the power of society backing up the person who is prejudiced. Since the US is de facto a white supremacist country, it is impossible for a person of color to be "racist" against white people.
So the meaning of
a racist has changed from someone who believes one race is superior to another and who may show or feel discrimination and/or prejudice against people of other races to the one above.
The question is then, what do you call, for example, a person of colour in a white supremacist country, such as the USA, who believes their race is superior to another race?
The meaning of words evolve all the time in English. For example, the word 'nice' used to mean something like 'foolish', but now it means something like 'delightful'. However, we do have words such as 'foolish' to describe people who would have called 'nice' in the 1200s.
You raise an interesting question and I am glad to see you acknowledge that the USA is a white supremacist country. Although I question your sincerity as you have promoted white supremacy and made many mean, racist, and Sinophobic posts in the past.
Anyways, most experts would probably use words like "prejudiced" or "bigoted" to describe a person of colour who believes their race is superior to other races. In most cases, a person of colour who has bigoted views is suffering from internalized whiteness and their hateful actions are thus an enactment of whiteness. Life for many people of colour is hell in white supremacist countries like the UK, US, and Belgium and because many people of colour in these countries are traumatized and quite literally struggling to stay alive day to day, some of them end up embracing the views of their oppressors as some kind twisted coping mechanism.
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Experts define racism as prejudice and the power of society backing up the person who is prejudiced. Since the US is de facto a white supremacist country, it is impossible for a person of color to be "racist" against white people.
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So the meaning of [i]a racist [/i]has changed from someone who believes one race is superior to another and who may show or feel discrimination and/or prejudice against people of other races to the one above.
The question is then, what do you call, for example, a person of colour in a white supremacist country, such as the USA, who believes their race is superior to another race?
The meaning of words evolve all the time in English. For example, the word 'nice' used to mean something like 'foolish', but now it means something like 'delightful'. However, we do have words such as 'foolish' to describe people who would have called 'nice' in the 1200s.
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You raise an interesting question and I am glad to see you acknowledge that the USA is a white supremacist country. Although I question your sincerity as you have promoted white supremacy and made many mean, racist, and Sinophobic posts in the past.
Anyways, most experts would probably use words like "prejudiced" or "bigoted" to describe a person of colour who believes their race is superior to other races. In most cases, a person of colour who has bigoted views is suffering from internalized whiteness and their hateful actions are thus an enactment of whiteness. Life for many people of colour is hell in white supremacist countries like the UK, US, and Belgium and because many people of colour in these countries are traumatized and quite literally struggling to stay alive day to day, some of them end up embracing the views of their oppressors as some kind twisted coping mechanism.