From: tgpedersen
Message: 64752
Date: 2009-08-15
>Here's a racist website:
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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Koenraad Elst" <koenraad.elst@> wrote:
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> > It would seem to me that "racism" defines a political ideology
> > that allots unequal rights to people of different races.
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> Wrong. This is not the main definition of the English term
> "racism", but of "racial/ethnic prejudice/discrimination" (a.k.a.
> "skin color-aroused discrimination") instead. You are here
> referring to _institutional_ racism and its underlying political
> ideology; yet, some more basic, general and all-encompassing
> definitions of "racism" are:
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> - "the belief that there are characteristics, abilities, or
> qualities specific to each race" (Oxford English Dictionary);