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This is a definition that you pulled out of your (or really, some social justice professor's ass) to make a distinction where there isn't one.
The marriage of power and racism already has (and has HAD) a term: INSTITUTIONAL or STRUCTURAL racism. This is distinguished from just ORDINARY racism, which is when someone believes their race is better than another race.
When some random dirt poor old white biddy calls a black person the "N" word at the supermarket, her actions are no more devastating than some black idiot online starts ranting about white devils and the superiority of the melinated race.
Besides, does it REALLY make you feel better if your definition actually becomes the standard and new definition of "racist"? Like it's ANY BETTER to be "just prejudiced POC" vs. a "white racist."
9 times out of 10 things that are called "racist" have the same inter-personal effects as things that are "prejudice." I don't, for the life of me, understand why black people and "POC" go to such lengths and think they need to "educate" everyone on this non-existent distinction.
[Sidenote: everyone knows the best places on earth to be a minority is the WHITE western world. Not Africa. Not the Middle East, not Asia. Not Latin America. That's a fact that is backed up through empirical evidence. Unless someone can provide evidence to the contrary?]
Majority population using government power and social influence to peddle bigotry: racist
Minority population that can't use government power and social influence to peddle bigotry: prejudiced
"Prejudice" is pre-judging someone or something without having all the necessary information to make such a judgement. Not liking is... not liking. It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with prejudice. If you know a fair amount about something, and decide that you don't like it, that is not prejudice.
Majority population using government power and social influence to peddle bigotry: racist
Minority population that can't use government power and social influence to peddle bigotry: prejudiced
Minority population using government power and social influence to peddle bigotry: 21st century American norm
Minority population using government power and social influence to peddle bigotry: 21st century American norm
That's in your mind, only. Last time I checked, most bosses in the US are white men, Congress is mostly white men, the American police force is almost universally white male, white males own most of the wealth in the US, white males run most of the universities, and white males make up almost all of the lead roles on TV and movies. Please, do tell how minorities are oppressing you so much, and no doubt in your mind ruined white women, that you had to run away to a non-white country?
Yep, the white male in 21st century America is so downtrodden
Majority population using government power and social influence to peddle bigotry: racist
Minority population that can't use government power and social influence to peddle bigotry: prejudiced
Please forgive all sane people if they don't adopt the Marxist attempt at the redefinition of "racism" to favor the use of racist action toward political power by minority groups.
Racism is racism, no matter what your personal political interests would prefer.
Craven attempts to manipulate language will make you worse enemies than an honest argument ever will; whatever it is.
What is more plausible: there is a massive, worldwide conspiracy to insert white people into positions of power; or white people are in positions of power because they were capable and rose accordingly?
Yeah, you hit my "low tolerance for stupidity" nerve.
But, anyway, amazing rebuttal! Way to smash the stereotype that people who advance this argument just parrot unsupportable narrative without ever having given critical thought to what they are actually arguing!
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