Change My Mind

Racism is, according to the dictionary, "hatred or intolerance of another race or other races."
So yes, there is racism against white people.

Certainly can be for sure.

That's over-simplified and reductive, it completely ignores the lived experience of people in society. Do you use the dictionary to understand everything? If you're over 10, I recommend moving on to more comprehensive material.

How does that ignore the experience of people in society?
Oh please, what should I do then, make up my own definitions? You can't change definitions to suit what you want. That's the point of having facts. Honestly, can't believe I'm being told not to use a dictionary when discussing words.

I didn't say 'don't use a dictionary' I suggested it not be used as the sole source of information.

Oh yes, because I learn my history from reading a dictionary. Racism is people being prejudiced and even hateful against others because of the color of their skin. Didn't get that from a dictionary, happy?

Happy that you don't understand how racism works? Not particularly.

Happy to see you don't understand how reality works? Not particularly.

Well please enlighten me all-knowing teacher

I have experienced racism as a white person, but you get to ignore my lived experience because I'm white?

Same here.

You may have experienced discrimination or prejudice but not racism.

The preposterous notion that minorities cannot be capable of racism is in itself, racist.
Any prejudice based on skin color is racist, PERIOD.
Self loathing liberals say and do the silliest things because they cannot justify their place in society.

Indeed

And to Captain_Scar's point, the dictionary is a very powerful tool which is used in high profile court cases all the time. Don't discredit it. The same logic is used by pro-choice people to refute pro-life arguments that abortion is murder. Murder by definition is a crime, abortion is not a crime, therefore abortion is not murder. I've seen that argument many many times, don't agree with it but I've seen it and when the hat is hung on that argument it's hard to have a productive discussion.

TL/DR; definitions are important.

Have an upvote, universal goodwill for all :)

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Are you joking? They are white, their power is a result of that. Do you think their racist attitudes have no impact on their day jobs? Do you think when they are on the streets as cops or in court houses as judges that their racism doesn't influence their decisions?

Don't know that I fully agree with that. I've been discriminated against for being a white Christian b4. Anything is possible.

Does it matter if it doesn't happen as much? Once should be too much. But you're a hypocrite, So you're okay with people you don't agree with being discriminated against.

"it wont affect their access to education"
Growing up, I always checked decline to state for race
I was accepted into an advanced program called excellence
The acceptance was rescinded because I was white (I literally could have been anything else and been accepted)
So not only could it affect my access to education, it DID.
And when is access to education negatively affected because someone is black, it may be negatively affected by the wealth/lack of wealth in the tax neighborhood of their school district, but that's a poverty issue, not a color issue.
It wont affect career prospects?
Then why did Rachel Dolezal have to pretend to be black?
My parents bought a house in Compton. My boyfriend (now husband) and I lived with them for awhile. We were harrassed by police, because we clearly "didn't belong" and must just be there to buy drugs (admittedly, this is underlied by the racist assumption that white neighborhoods don't sell drugs, WTF. My openly racist, white trash uncles dealt drugs and would never go to Compton)
I'll admit that racism against blacks and other minorities is a more widespread problem than racism against whites, but that does NOT mean that racism against whites does not exist.

What about those black supremacist groups in Israel?

Exactly. All racism is bad... sadly blacks are not realizing that the liberals are using them for political gain and to win this election. If I were a black American I'd be outraged at what the Liberals are doing....pushing abortions, pushing mob riots, perpetuating hostility towards the whites and lawmakers & law enforcement... they are pawns sadly. This is what blacks should be outraged about!!!!

Making guns available isn't pushing "criminal gun violence."

The site can learn from this. We can agree on stuff!

Also, Making Meth, Crack, Opioids and other drugs isn't pushing drugs, It's giving people the option.

See how stupid that sounds.