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Ibby · 07-12-2012, 04:45 PM

Nope.
Via a good friend of mine, who has to keep this on her tumblr page cause tumblr sure is full of racist fucks.

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Scholarly Definition of Racism

Quoth The Part of Wikipedia You Chose Not To Read:

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The Oxford English Dictionary defines racism as the “belief that all members of each race possess characteristics, abilities, or qualities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races” and the expression of such prejudice, while the Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary defines it as a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority or inferiority of a particular racial group, and alternatively that it is also the prejudice based on such a belief. The Macquarie Dictionary defines racism as: “the belief that human races have distinctive characteristics which determine their respective cultures, usually involving the idea that one’s own race is superior and has the right to rule or dominate others.”

Now, someone point out where in history Whiteness has been considered inferior.

Now tell me all the times societies have claimed as superior.

Now tell me all the negative stereotypes about People of Color.

Now tell me all the negative stereotypes about Whiteness.

Now tell me when People of Color have actively oppressed Whiteness based on said stereotypes.

To the point of extinction? To the point of institutionalized and ethnic segregation?

Now tell me all the times when Whiteness was used to oppress People of Color (POC) based on said stereotypes of said people of color.

To the point of extinction? To the point of institutionalized and ethnic segregation?

Now tell me again, why you keep thinking racism is not a white thing. Because according to the part of Wikipedia and the dictionary you refuse to quote this is totally a White thing. Society has always told People of Color that we are nothing more than stupid sexualized beasts and that achieving Whiteness was the only to remedy that lack of humanity. So no. I don’t think I can be racist against a ideology of perfection. Like, what am I going to say “Oh your whiteness which has been considered scientifically superior, and has never had the misfortune of monolithic assumptions thrusted upon it, is now inferior and I’m going to make your life a living hell with all the privileges I own, which is none.”

You see, I don’t even have the resources to hate you as violently as Whites can and have been to POCs over centuries.

I cannot erase your existence from history books.

I cannot abuse your culture’s symbolism.

I can’t even slur you to death because every single fucking one of them is a homage to WHITES IN POWER.

Basically my prejudice stops at “I hate you because people think you’re great,” bark with no bite. You hear that? I don’t have the power to do anything else to you.

Racism is prejudice with power. Don’t forget that. Now stop derailing.