No one has defined racism to include the assumption of hereditary racial inequality; that's simply an assumption racists tend to have.
Indeed, we know that women are best positioned to define sexism, people of color to define racism, and LGBTQ people to define homophobia, transphobia, and heterosexism.
As how to define racism, much less what to do about it, roils the delegates to the United Nations World Conference Against Racismm in Durban, South Africa, it might be wise to remember that the importance of skin color is largely a modern invention.
But it's not racist; and don't expect me to define racism for you, because Google is available to anyone who has access to this article.
However, another wrote that "to define racism on Penn's campus as white on black, and to plea for all HIspanics and black students to not come here because of that incident seems like an over-simplification of a more complicated issue".
"[Odinists] claim they are opposed to racism, but they define racism very differently from the average person," says Rood. "They say, 'We're not racist.
I define racism as a single-valued, continuous mapping…." The joke is now on them, as economists have dug up insight after insight in the field.
Again, please let me define racism.
Because the way we define racism is EXTREMELY limited.
As a historian I know the names of David Duke and George Wallace, names that all by themselves define racism.
