Comments on: What kind of racist are you? https://www.justinfoxton.com/2016/02/10/what-kind-of-racist-are-you/ South Africa - Together with Hope Tue, 26 Oct 2021 13:45:26 +0000 hourly 1 By: Ian https://www.justinfoxton.com/2016/02/10/what-kind-of-racist-are-you/#comment-35 Thu, 11 Feb 2016 09:16:13 +0000 https://foxtonsflipside.wordpress.com/?p=170#comment-35 I have maintained for a long time that many people have lost sight of the definition of “Racist” and what it actually means. Of late, it has become nothing more than a word of convenience, a white manager doing his job properly is labelled a racist when disciplining correctly, whites criticising Government because of bad policies are often labelled racist, but are they really?

Compare the following, “If I dislike someone because they are black”, that is racist but, “If I dislike someone who is an arse-hole, who happens to black”, is that racist, hardly? However, they are very often thrown into the same box.

Many white people get upset and offended when labelled a racist because they only understand the meaning in its most ugliest form. We need to realise [educate] that being called racist is not always a personal attack but is rather about the system that we live in. To redefine racist, as Justin has written, is a start, but to really understand what a racist is we also need to look at what racism is. Perhaps the following articles may help [I need to point out that, of this minute, I have not finished reading the Harvard article so please excuse me taking a chance on this on!]

http://sociology.about.com/od/R_Index/fl/Racism.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism#Sociological

http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/matthewclair/files/sociology_of_racism_clairandenis_2015.pdf

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