definitions of racism

This note last modified September 1, 2024

Tags: race, multidefinitions, problematic

I think it’s unfortunate that “racism” has so many different definitions because, like all problems of multidefinitions, it causes miscommunications. People disagree about certain people / certain laws being racist, and both sides of the disagreement can be “right”, but just using different working definitions of racism.

  • prejudice
  • prejudice plus power
  • racism by proxy
  • systemic racism
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