Functional Explanation Again

Forstater, Mathew ForstaterM at umkc.edu
Thu Mar 22 11:23:19 PST 2001


1. every group antipathy is not "racism."

2. "racism" is best preserved for use to describe the ideology of the oppressor group with political and other power, not used for describing the relatively powerless, oppressed group's 'feelings' toward the oppressor

3. anti-Black racism is a benchmark for all other racisms

-----Original Message----- From: Justin Schwartz [mailto:jkschw at hotmail.com]

Alas, whites hate other races than blacks. And not all whites are racist. And other races (not all of their members, of course) hate blacks, e.g., Asians. So "Anti-black racism by whites" -- Jordan's topic--is not redundant. He is not addressing why whites hate Asians or why Asias hate blacks. And yes, I know that racism involves more than hatred. It is a shorthand. jks


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>the "case"? "anti-black racism" is redundant. so is "racism by whites."
>
>you wrote:
>
> >the case of anti-black
> >racism by whites.

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