Okay, White 'Murrica....

[Dystopia]

True story, but while every race can be racist, I'm not particularly worried about racist statements about whites because I know they'll never impact politics, in fact, there's no political party that has, as an ideology, to kick out everyone who isn't white... Usually racism is a reference to discrimination against people of colour because they are the minority in the west (for now) and it's far more common.

It depends a lot on which definition of "racism" you're using. There is an extremely popular definition among Anthropologists today, which goes like this: Race prejudice + power = racism.

It's based on approaching the definition backwards, so to speak. If we agree that racism necessarily causes mental, emotional, physical, and economic harm to entire groups of people (those who are the target of racism), then the definition makes more sense. Bigotry against the Irish used to be a serious problem. Today there are probably a few people who still feel that way, but because they have no power and their bigotry is not institutionalized, it doesn't affect me (3/4 Irish) in any way.

Personally, I think there needs to be another word for race prejudice + power. Most people think of "racism" as simply "hating people & believing that they are inherently inferior simply because of their racial characteristics." Trying to re-define "racism" more narrowly will only lead to pointless arguments.

Yeah I totally agree. I usually care about the definition of racism + social power because it impacts discriminated groups much further; but simply having a stereotype about any other race is racist, be it against whites, blacks or asians. However simply holding racists views is not more harmful that engaging in social racial prejudice and promoting it consciously and subconsciously ; the officers who unarmed shoot black men, the store owners that follow black customers around the shop; the person who is more likely to consider an opinion if it's thrown out by a white instead of a black - Those are all forms of subtle promotion of racism, it's just not noticeable to the common citizen.