What is racism?

Of course I'm presuming, that's called **** happens.

 

Extra spor for whom? Chosen on what basis? If on race, then that is racist.

 

At least you admit to your racism. That's a step.

 

Sorry not racism.

 

That's because Being an ******* toward one person who doesn't share your shade of tan doesn't necessarily mean you don't like all similarly endowed people,

 

Racism is simply making skin color a priority when it comes to the valuing of people.

 

Wrong, it never created extra slots.

 

Presuming personal experience, personality trait, skills etc because of somebody's race is racism. Sorry.

 

Still not racism and still not doing that.

racism
noun
rac·ism ˈrā-ˌsi-zəm
also -ˌshi-

Synonyms of racism
1
: 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

 

Lol, im a walking example.
They increased slots.
Without that opportunity, i wouldn't be making $2k a week after taxes, with a company suv and gas card now. The blue states simply are where the money is at.

 

Alrighty then.

 

One individual, no, but when it turns into a pattern of doing it to people who don’t look like you then it’s something totally different.

 

Nice title, "what is racism", but nowhere in the thread do you define the word. You offer hypothetical examples, but no definition.

 

Racism can also be needing a safe space away from white people.

 

Nope some one else didn't get one those are competitive. My rent on 1280 sq ft is 540 a month. Whats yours?

 

I find there to be damn few people around who look like me, the lucky bastards...

 

The point of posting this topic was to demonstrate that words have many meanings within many contexts. The word racism, whose basic definition is tied into assuming something about a particular race, morphed at some point into a word with a negative connotation only. It was the narrative that controlled the definition.

There are those who believe that all people are the exactly the same no matter what race, ethnicity, or any other variation one might consider, but if you have studied biology to any degree, you would be aware that that the rule is that the same example of life [in both the plant and animal kingdoms] develop quite differently depending on their geographical location. Why wouldn't this biological reality apply to our own species?

I am not saying that anybody is better than anybody else, only that they are different, and because of these differences, people develop preferences. Now you can clean up the verbiage and call these "preferences," but it is a form of racism, in its pure meaning. It's only when you assume the negative meaning does it become an issue, and there are a lot of words like this...for example, socialist, atheist, etc. These are words that have a pure meaning and a socially constructed meaning...mostly negative to much of the population [depending on location].

Racism in America has been used as a political wedge to sow hatred in a country that has made incredible strides in moving towards a society that creates opportunity for all over the past decades. But the word has become so toxic in its use that there is absolutely no context what-so-ever.

Again, I wanted to demonstrate that all words are like this. In the human intellectual sphere, nothing is as it seems to be.

 

I did and one other guy did.

 

Rent should only be 1/3rd your monthly income, im paying $1800 for a 2 bedroom 1500 sq ft...so its barley 1/4th.

AA added additional seats.
https://www.ecmweb.com/construction...s-team-up-with-washington-dcs-step-up-program


Who told you the lie that it replaces students?

 

Yes I'm presuming that there will be people who benefit from AA who shouldn't but **** happens.

 

Guess that means schools of salmon, fields of bluebonnets and ants in their own exclusive colonies are all racist. They oughta be ashamed!

Since time began, all forms of life have grouped amongst their own kind. It's a natural and normal predisposition whether by instinct or an evolved human preference. The groups in today's society - whites, blacks, gays, trans, kids, immigrants, cowboys, New Yorkers - all have that same eons-old human preference to group to one degree or another.

True. Yet many have fallen for the too-easy identity politics of finger-pointing and name-calling, like it's a gradeschool play yard. Do any of them ever pause to consider why they apply the epithet almost exclusively to white American men? Or the fallacy of such a dumb generalization they'd likely never use discussing a nonpolitical topic?

Maybe they'll get it and maybe they won't. In the meantime, I vote American schools and universities be required to show 'Blazing Saddles' in every classroom each year.

Back in 2009 a commenter to one of Bob Parks' articles called him a racist and that what he wrote was a lie. He did't ignore her; he took the time to compose and post the history of the Democrat voting record:

The DEMOCRAT RACE LIE

Nope, it's not letter perfect in every detail but it's close. Also, it seems history wasn't the commenter's forte and Parks never heard from her again.

Spot on and agree with your entire post.

The word 'racism' first showed up at the beginning of the 20th century and became popular in Europe by 1935 for obvious reasons. It was used in America by the late 1930s and rose in popularity in the 1960s, again for obvious reasons.

Today, the word's used to attack anyone with a differing opinion, as well as a political trinket to signal cult solidarity. Worse, it's also a lame excuse for imposing inane ideas and mandates on the majority, despite the incidental disservice to the minority deemed oppressed.

PS
Gotta ask: Can't folks in the racism pointers club find another word? Racist is old and worn with sagging wrinkles. Really. Aren't you tired of it yet? Would you consider switching to dissentient? Well, perhaps 'Lol, another dissentient excuse!' won't get anyone's knees shaking like racist does, but any derogatory word with a well defined meaning will do. And if pointees have the crazy notion yer vocabulary's limited, a new word would offer a prime opportunity to prove 'em wrong! Might even become founders of a hot new narrative. How 'bout it?

 

Yep rent is about a 1/4 what I and my wife make on SS. Where did you get the idea that there is a free ride? There are x number of slots in these universities. If a gets one b doesn't. All AA did was insure that a certain percentage of those slots went to minority students it didn't add a single because there are only so many classes.

 

You would have less of that if you didn't use race as faulty proxy for things that matter.

 

Well it wouldn't have been used in the first place if blacks hadn't first been enslaved and then discriminated against.

 

Yes, those who enslaved those people engaged in faulty proxy thinking. We need not do the same.

And it wasn't generic "blacks" who were enslaved. It was particular people who derserve to be recognized for their suffering and not have it claimed through faulty proxy by others who just happen to have the same skin tone today.