PulpGnome

Reply to Are you afraid of talking about racism? in Blogging JoeUser Forums

The issue is one involving point of view and generalization. Racism is the use of an arbitrary characteristic (that is, not an essential characteristic like intelligence, but one that can be selected at random, like skin pigmentation or eye color) and using that characteristic for the purposes of acquiring or maintaining power. That's racism. We can easily identify racism, if we really want to understand what's going on (not just protect our power). When we look at some of the actions