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Originally posted by DAP
The derivative suffix only indicates that it is a doctrine, and a doctrine isn't inherently an systemic institution, per se.
That's because racism is a broad term that can include a number of things, prejudice included. Institutional racism describes the unequal sociological system perpetuated by governments, private entities, and other social institutions.
I'm not sure how this is supposed to diminish the validity of those definitions, but okay.
And by the way, Europeans weren't the only ones who created an unequal, racist social structure. Institutional racism can be observed in Malaysia in the 1970s (Bumiputera) and Sri Lanka throughout much of the mid-to-late 20th century. So the logic that white people are the only race that can perpetuate racism is a huge misconception.
I'm not sure what the point of bringing same-sex marriage to the equation was, unless you're trying to prove that social mores are evolutionary by nature, to which I would agree.
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Now, it’s about changing social mores, when two posts ago, it was about definitions in the dictionary being used as evidence of absolute, definitive meanings of words. My marriage analogy was apropos because it’s an example of an evolving definition. Tell me something. Why would Callisto or anyone else be referring to whites in any other country in a thread about a race riot in the US? Are you really that stuck on semantics that you can’t figure out that when someone says “You can’t be racist to white people” . . . in a thread . . . about a race riot . . . in the United States of America, that they’re most likely referring to whites in the US? Now I could be wrong, but I don’t think you’re that dim.
And where exactly did I say that Europeans were the only ones who were capable of being racist? In fact, I explicitly said in an earlier comment on this thread, that racism is not merely a numbers game. It’s about economic and political power. I also brought up how women are technically an oppressed minority even though they make up the majority of people on the planet. My reference to white men was in reference to the dictionary. I said white men wrote the dictionary, changes are made to it often, and that dictionaries often don’t recognize racism within its sociological context
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