Re: racist vs racialist?

On Tuesday 10 December 2002 9:08 am, Tristan wrote:
> Andreas Johansson wrote:
> > What's wrong with "islamism"? The word, not the phenomenon, that is.
>
> Honest question here: is Islamism a (redundent) word for 'Islam', or
> does it mean discrimination against/within/between Islamic
> faiths/adherents thereof?
>
> And John Cowan took it upon himself (or perhaps someone else, but to the
>
> same effect) to type:
> >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".
>
> What about that stuff that happened with the white farmers in that
> African country whose name eludes me? Isn't that institutionalised
> discrimination based on race?
>
> Tristan

You mean Zimbabwe.  Yes, that is indeed anti-white racism.