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Originally Posted by riseagainstrocks
Because words have practical applications. Being racist is like being xenophobic or homophobic, etc etc. Unless you have a means of imposing it, who cares? You're just a person with a belief system.
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What a bizarre premise. I'm not even trying to be snide, it just literally doesn't seem sensible to me.
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Our conversations about racism, as a country, can't be about the individual beliefs of 320 million people. They have to be in the aggregate.
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Then make that clear when you have those discussions on a larger level. Win win. This goes back to what I've said on this subject before: it's a valid concept for academia as it would remove a lot of qualifying that would clutter up a paper, but that doesn't mean that it's a firm rule to redifine the word by.