“Racism is the belief in the superiority of one race over another, which often r

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“The more a person needs to be right, the less certain he is...”
“Historical examples of institutional racism include the Holocaust, the apartheid regime in South Africa, slavery and segregation in the United States, and slavery in Latin America. Racism was also an aspect of the social organization of many colonial states and empires.”

“Racism can be present in social actions, practices, or political systems (e.g., apartheid) that support the expression of prejudice or aversion in discriminatory practices or laws. Associated social actions may include nativism, xenophobia, otherness, segregation, hierarchical ranking, supremacism, and related social phenomena.”

Title almost says it all.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism

8 comments

  • skibum609
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    6 years ago
    So wanting people to be able to come here illegally and live here off welfare just because they have the same skin color that you do is not racism? Lmao.
  • WILLYSGOTAWOMAN
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    6 years ago
    why are we talking about this? i'll chime in: if you're a monger wanting poor desperate women to stay out of the country is self defeating.
  • Icey
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    6 years ago
    Racism also includes the political, social and economic power to enforce said racist views.
  • san_jose_guy
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    6 years ago
    I agree with out OP.

    Also, today the Right runs on the premise that the poor are poor because of character disorder. This can rival racism in its effect. Either way though, believing that some are unworthy, this will destroy or democracy and our nation.

    SJG
  • Icey
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    6 years ago
    That notion stems from the Puritans and Calvinism, that the poor are morally deficient and the rich closer to god since god rewarded them with said wealth.
  • san_jose_guy
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    6 years ago
    ^^^^^^^^ And today this continues full force in the Evangelical, or "I AM A CHRISTIAN" movement, called "Christian Nationalism" by Michelle Goldberg, and with one of the most dangerous manifestations being George W. Bush's Faith Based Charities.

    Most of our politics today revolves around this idea that the poor have character defects.

    SJG
  • Icey
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    6 years ago
    Very much so. Religion has been used to legitimate every form of oppression in this country from slavery, to child labor to the genocide of the Native Americans to segregation...to etc..
  • san_jose_guy
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    6 years ago
    ^^^^^^^ Indeed, and the Born Again movement is simply a repackaging of the South's proslavery and Jim Crow religion. People do not recognize it, because it is not overtly racist and it is racially integrated. But its focus is still on your own quest for salvation, telling you to ignore social injustice. And the price that minorities pay for being in it is that they have to surrender any different vision of what this country will be. They have to become Uncle Toms.

    Nothing is more important today than defeating this Born Again or I Am A Christian political movement.

    SJG
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