It's the belief of people being inferior or superior solely based on their skin color. Really its not that hard to understand, but people keep peddling the misinformation that it must include prejudice + power and have forcibly trying to rewrite it as such. The prejudice + power is usually used to hide ones own racism. Usually anyone that peddles the prejudice + power are anti-white extremist or mistakenly belief that their own race, any color, is inferior.
Since it's likely that everyone has experienced racism by the time they read this I'm sure no example would be needed.
by Lumlotus December 9, 2016
Get the racismmug. racism.nasty shit
by alifig1 July 28, 2012
Get the racismmug. by Sexydimma March 15, 2018
Get the racismmug. by rdivad September 24, 2009
Get the racismmug. The belief that any one, particular race or races are superior based on the color of skin or the ancestry of a person.
In reference to the first stupid definition example: It is racist when you post something stupid like that especially when that kind of data is unfounded. Its blatant racism.
by Mr. Black December 28, 2005
Get the racismmug. I learned it in school as "Prejudice based on race". I learned it after school as "Discrimination based on Race.". I learned it on the Blogs, and therefore from several dictionaries as "The belief that races have different characteristics that cause some races to be superior to others".
Using the grey, I've settled on "Discrimination based on Race". The first is a more general version of the third. But if it is just a "thought", it can be talked about, discussed, and eradicated. Its when it is acted upon that people become harmed.
So it is the action of discriminating based on that racial prejudice that I call racism. First, it is applying power. Some people believe only those in power can discriminate -- it sounds like a logical fallacy. Instead of corner casing when the charge of racism is valid depending on some hypothetical power difference, lets just say it happens when someone applies power to act on a prejudice. The second, is it matches with the very pejorative connotation it has -- I hate the thought of punishing thought, or of people not being able to talk in general, or of people finding actual difference based on historical events and selection. Instead, by using definition 2, we can break it down to 'regardless of what you think, were you fair'. And if the answer is yes, there was no racism, even if there was a racial prejudice.
Conclusion: Racism is *discrimination based on race*.
Using the grey, I've settled on "Discrimination based on Race". The first is a more general version of the third. But if it is just a "thought", it can be talked about, discussed, and eradicated. Its when it is acted upon that people become harmed.
So it is the action of discriminating based on that racial prejudice that I call racism. First, it is applying power. Some people believe only those in power can discriminate -- it sounds like a logical fallacy. Instead of corner casing when the charge of racism is valid depending on some hypothetical power difference, lets just say it happens when someone applies power to act on a prejudice. The second, is it matches with the very pejorative connotation it has -- I hate the thought of punishing thought, or of people not being able to talk in general, or of people finding actual difference based on historical events and selection. Instead, by using definition 2, we can break it down to 'regardless of what you think, were you fair'. And if the answer is yes, there was no racism, even if there was a racial prejudice.
Conclusion: Racism is *discrimination based on race*.
Some feel Affirmative Action is a positive application of Racism; others, because of the soft bigotry of low expectations, consider Affirmative Action as an example of the negatives of all Racism.
by pureabsolute January 9, 2016
Get the racismmug. 1. Racism is usually unfair discrimination towards someone who's skin color is different.
2. Lately, racism has become the first line of defense when someone says something you don't agree with.
3. Also, a lot of people have been trying to declare someone as racist because they something regarding the color brown.
2. Lately, racism has become the first line of defense when someone says something you don't agree with.
3. Also, a lot of people have been trying to declare someone as racist because they something regarding the color brown.
1. Bob: Man, fuck all these black bastards!
Joe: Hey, man, not cool. Racism isn't nice.
2. Tom: I think that your report was poorly wrote and it was painful to listen to.
Jim: Man, fuck you, it's because I'm black, isn't it? Fucking racist.
3. Random person: Hey, do you prefer white milk or chocolate milk?
Other person: Uhm, I like white milk.
Random person: OMG! DUDE! YOUR SOO RACIST!
Other person: THE FUCK? Since when is white milk a race? O.e
Joe: Hey, man, not cool. Racism isn't nice.
2. Tom: I think that your report was poorly wrote and it was painful to listen to.
Jim: Man, fuck you, it's because I'm black, isn't it? Fucking racist.
3. Random person: Hey, do you prefer white milk or chocolate milk?
Other person: Uhm, I like white milk.
Random person: OMG! DUDE! YOUR SOO RACIST!
Other person: THE FUCK? Since when is white milk a race? O.e
by DoesMyNameRealyMatter? January 25, 2011
Get the racismmug.