What's the definition of racism, does anyone know?

Question

The reason I am asking is because people are so quick to call someone racist. Most people don't even know what racist is.

Answer 1

I did this so that everyone would know the truth!

Definition of Racism

Principle I. Racism is an ideological, structural and historic stratification process by which the population of European descent, through its individual and institutional distress patterns, intentionally has been able to sustain, to its own best advantage, the dynamic mechanics of upward or downward mobility (of fluid status assignment) to the general disadvantage of the population designated as non-white (on a global scale), using skin color, gender, class, ethnicity or nonwestern nationality as the main indexical criteria used for enforcing differential resource allocation decisions that contribute to decisive changes in relative racial standing in ways most favoring the populations designated as 'white.'

Principle II. The aim of this peculiar post-1492 stratification process has been to aggregate an upwardly mobile and putatively 'white' racial group that is stratified internally and that strives to validate its own ascendancy using a shifting range of 'white' cultural practices which are defined as 'white' not on any presumed biological basis, but on the basis of "ideological whiteness"--a field of racial discourse and representation.

Principle III. The conceptual content of this historic and politically-charged discursive field is sustained by racial agents who in many ways articulate and justify the suppression of "ideological blackness" (and every form of non-whiteness this may entail) which may be accomplished by many formal and informal means of institutional domination, routinized interpersonal interactions, cultural imperialism, or by any other racialized means of information control.

Principle IV. As a generative principle of racism, "ideological whiteness" refers to a dual behavioral process entailing enactments of identify formation and resource access legitimation, both of which were practices once overtly recognized as aspects of "white supremacy," but which now may be more subtly and covertly reproduced as an observable and routine set of implicitly prescriptive, but explicitly disavowed white supremacist beliefs and practices to which all who identify as 'white' (or who behave as 'whitened') are expected to adhere--especially white males--if they wish to maintain their own racial standing as members of these two privileged 'white' groups and assert their negotiable right to privileged resource access.

Princple V. Collectively, the 'white' and/or 'whitened' members of this racially privileged global population tend to bolster their shared political intent to impose patterns of restricted resource access on racially subordinant populations, and aim to preserve their presumably non-negotiable right to prescribe, and even dictate, lessor resource access rights for certain upwardly mobile members of the 'non-white' population whose internalized racism, reliable complicity, and carefully scrutinized willingness to cooperate with racial dominates is always required and rewarded.

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Answer 2

Mr. Webster says it best,The belief that some races are inherently superior to others. Discrimination based on race.
But All discrimination is NOT based on race. As a long-hair or hippie as many referred to US. I worked so I didn't really qualify for full hippie status. Now in the 70's, were the most discriminated against. Those cop or red-necks would pass three blacks just to kick us in the butt. We were a minorities minority. The funniest thing is now they want to call ME a red-neck......go figure this world never ceases to amaze me!

Answer 3

This question has been asked ten too many times since I've been on today.

Racism = believing your race is superior to the next.

Answer 4

I would say this: It's the act of being condescending to someone else, based on the fact that the color of their skin isn't the same as yours.
Pretty shallow, I'd say!

Answer 5

I'd define it as judging individuals based on thier ancestry, rather than on thier merits.

Answer 6

Read that idiot Uncle Tom's answer and you'll get it. For the best interpretation... look it up in the dictionary sis.

Answer 7

Treating people of another race as inferior because you believe your race is supereme.

Answer 8

Racism is living in fear of someone that is distictly different than you. Basically, when your racist it mean your afraid of them which also adds to thinking they are inferior.

Answer 9

Thinking that your race is better and treating other races differently usually..... less nicely

Answer 10

racism is ignorance,hatred. point blank no matter what color you may be. it is also not being God like. we should love all of our brothers and sisters.