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Re: racist vs racialist?

From:Tristan <kesuari@...>
Date:Tuesday, December 10, 2002, 9:08
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

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Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
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