The politically correct definition of racism is racist.
Racism is a fire that the political class can't put out, perhaps because they don't want to. Intentionally or not, the politicians, media and academics are all stoking the fires.
The historically racist term
colored people has been replaced by the cool and fully acceptable term
people of color. I harbor doubts that such a change in terminology will make a dent in the problem of racism.
But words are important and they do influence thought, so we need to be aware when our definitions are causing problems.
Discrimination is a term that has undergone major changes in meaning.
Discriminate used to mean
to choose after careful deliberation, a process that has only positive connotations. Over the decades, the meaning gradually changed to a negative:
making a choice based on group affiliation such as race, ethnicity, religion, etc. Then the word
discriminate mutated further. It now seems to hold a more confusing, subjective and inconsistent meaning, one that took me a while to parse. After some contemplation, I realize that
discrimination has come to mean
doing something that someone might want to get offended by.
However let us cut to the chase: What does racism mean?
It was first
defined by the
Oxford English Dictionary (2nd edition, 1939) as "[t]he theory that distinctive human characteristics and abilities are determined by race"
Well, the world has turned around many a time since then and the original definition of 'racism' was altered in the fifties. At the time few paid any attention....even fewer were concerned about it. This allowed the liberals to come up with their own defintion and they changed the original definition into something that they could use as a political weapon...and this weapon is in display in all dictionaries you see online now.
It is now considered heresy and taboo according to liberals to speak of genetics having anything to do with human characteristics or behavior. Except in one exception...they do claim homosexuality is inherited aka caused by genetics.
Now can I ask....if one of human's most basic function or nature...sexuality...is determined by genes....is it not only reasonable but very logical to think there must be other things regarding humans that are determined genetically?
'There is surely no nation in the world that holds “racism” in greater horror than does the United States. Compared to other kinds of offenses, it is thought to be somehow more reprehensible. The press and public have become so used to tales of murder, rape, robbery, and arson, that any but the most spectacular crimes are shrugged off as part of the inevitable texture of American life. “Racism” is never shrugged off.'
https://www.amren.com/news/2017/06/what-is-racism/
On the origin of the word 'racist'.........
https://redice.tv/news/racist-a-word-invented-by-ussr-s-leon-trotsky