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In reply to the discussion: Why Reverse Racism Isn't Real [View all]Kurska
(5,739 posts)"For my entire life people have said racism is bigotry based on race. Bigotry can be directed at people for many reasons besides race (sexuallity, relgion...etc). By trying to make it so that racism describes bigotry based on institutionalized systems, you make it so that there is no specific word to describe bigotry based on race that isn't based on institutionalized systems.
You remove meaning from a word and propose it be replaced by a more generic word, that is also used to mean different things. There is literally no reason to do that. The concept that you're trying to describe (racism that has institutional power) is already perfectly described by the term "institutionalized racism". "
Explain to me why the definition you're offering is better.
Yeah forget the rest of my post on edit, what I'm really curious about is this part.