Re: racist vs racialist?

Padraic Brown scripsit:

> you're either a hate filled racist because you
> prefer to associate with other white people
> (blacks, of course, can't be racist, on account
> of the 380 years of persecution, slavery and
> bigotry they've been burdened with every single
> day of that time in the territy of the USA) or
This is an equivoque on the two meanings of "racism": personal distrust
or hatred of members of other races vs. institutionalized discrimination
based on race.  I myself find it leads to fewer confusions if "racism"
is used in the latter sense only, which means indeed that whites are not
subject to racism anywhere (AFAIK; Haiti is a special case).  For the
other sense I speak of "race hatred".

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