Re: racist vs racialist?
From: | Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> |
Date: | Sunday, December 8, 2002, 16:44 |
Padraic wrote:
>--- Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> wrote:
> > I've run across the form _racialist_ a few
> > times lately (in history and
> > sociology books) - is there any difference from
> > plain old boring _racist_? I
> > know this's off-topic, but I figured you
> > conlangers are the group of people
> > that I know with the best chance of being able
> > to answer. (MY lexica won't
> > recognize the word "racialist".)
>
>Sounds like one of those academic doublespeak
>words to me (somewhat like "islamism", to mention
>another recent addition to the lexicon).
What's wrong with "islamism"? The word, not the phenomenon, that is.
Andreas
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