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Originally Posted by JoshBB
power and privilege in society. You need both of those things to be be actively 'racist' so to speak.
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No you don't. I'm baffled about where this misunderstanding had spawned from, it's such a popular opinion these days but it's simply incorrect. It's just... Not the case. Racism implies intent, not consequence, therefore ANY individual of ANY ethnicity who dislikes, stereotypes, or otherwise insults ANY other individual or group of individuals, based arbitrarily on their race, is
being racist. What happens afterwards, how affected the other person was (if at all) is irrelevant.
The only explanation I can think of is that someone, at some point, heard someone else say that only a majority race (in the West, white people) can be and often are institutionally racist and got confused and thought it applied to all racism and then that idea spread. But it doesn't apply. It's a misunderstanding of what the term means and implies.