vash1012
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Re: Philando Castile’s family, Minnesota city reach nearly $3 million settlement in h
Yea, I tend to use the term bias which is less provocative, unless the action is intentionally outwardly directed. Racism is too loaded of a charge to use in a civil discussion and have anything but bad results. Racism does have a definition:
"prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior"
And I do think a person who believes black people to be inherently more dangerous and applies that fear to most black individuals they come in contact with qualifies as meeting that definition since implicit in that belief is the belief that white people are less dangerous, thus superior...but how many times does a person have to display racism to become a racist? Is one instance enough or does it have to be a pervasive pattern in their behavior? I would think its the latter so unless I know someone well enough to establish a behavioral pattern, I would try not to call them a racist unless its just really overt. Like every post from adpst.
Yea, I tend to use the term bias which is less provocative, unless the action is intentionally outwardly directed. Racism is too loaded of a charge to use in a civil discussion and have anything but bad results. Racism does have a definition:
"prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior"
And I do think a person who believes black people to be inherently more dangerous and applies that fear to most black individuals they come in contact with qualifies as meeting that definition since implicit in that belief is the belief that white people are less dangerous, thus superior...but how many times does a person have to display racism to become a racist? Is one instance enough or does it have to be a pervasive pattern in their behavior? I would think its the latter so unless I know someone well enough to establish a behavioral pattern, I would try not to call them a racist unless its just really overt. Like every post from adpst.