• Strangle@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    When you were taught the definition of racism, or when it’s spoken about today (sometimes) it’s a hateful word and a hateful way of thinking about a group of people.

    : a belief that race is a fundamental determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race

    Progressives have since changed that definition to sometimes mean power + privilege = racism. Which is a wildly different thing and is not based on hate at all, but on socio-issues

    Prejudice plus power, also known as R = P + P, is a stipulative definition of racism used in the United States, often by white anti-racism activists.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prejudice_plus_power

    The problems in discussing these things or calling someone ‘racist’ is that these definitions (amongst others) can be used interchangeably, because they are both wildly different definitions of the same word