snowy owl whitecotton: stuck-in-mania: I just need to point something out. Racism, in some...
I just need to point something out. Racism, in some cases, describes systematic oppression in a government or body of authority. But it also encompasses hatred or intolerance of another race. The two definitions can exist together. And they can exist separately. Both are…
I’m not. I promise you. Racism isn’t only racism when there’s power involved. I do not know why tumblr decided that it’s like that. It’s not. It CAN BE. That’s ONE OF the definitions. But it’s also literally just hating another race. It’s a type of prejudice, speicified.
tumblr didn’t create these concepts; Social Scientists explain what racism is and how White people are not experiencing it. Hating someone based on their skin color is prejudice, not racism. The dictionary, written by a White man over 100 years ago, is not accurate.