Racism is an ideology that elevates the social construction of racial difference to a primary place in human relations. It can be used to rationalize the oppression of certain groups, but can exist in oppressed groups in response to the oppressors. Racism, as an ideology, is an idea, not an act.
Racism + power = racial oppression
-Chip Berlet
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 4:38 PM
Subject: Re: Anti-Zionism Is Racism."
>
> This is pompous bullshit. Racism is the ideology which justifies the
> oppression of particular groups, always emerging after and in
> explanation of that objective oppression. This is the only _useful_
> defintion of racism.
>
> Carrol