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Originally Posted by magister
I don't think anyone should accept being called racist. Racism is a perjorative term that is an evil by its very definition. It's contradictory for someone to advocate a logical and rational public policy change, or make a coherent political argument, and then accept the term racist. No one should accept this label.
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"Racism", unless specified further, does not imply evil, nor racial hatred. It implies any semantic that can be derived from combining "race" with "ism", and that is a broad spectrum of ideas and conceptions. That the term in these days is abused as meaning inherently the evil racial hatred towards other races (specifically "white" versus "black"), is perhaps, the product of an opposition towards the realization and conception of the existence of races and their significance, which people are kept from understanding with a social stigmatization, characterized by this one term, which people are so willing to avoid being labeled as, that they do not learn about academic racism and the reality of races. The only way to counter that, is to stop caring about the stigma when someone uses it as a straw man argument.