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Originally Posted by RHYMEFESTkillah
I'm pretty sure you know that by group they meant race.
What makes a dictionary any less of an opinionated source?
Someone wrote that definition. They just have no reasoning as to why they wrote it. (understandably as it is featured in a dictionary, not an article/opinion paper)
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when did i mention anything about the dictionary? I was merely pointing out that just because the paper you referenced was written by a university, it doesnt make it the be all and end all of the argument. And no, I didn't know that by group they mean race, and the entire article downplays the issue of race being the primary factor of racism, to give more credit to the argument that it is more about a power struggle. racism in its simplest and most basic definition is descrimination of a person because of their RACIAL BACKGROUND. the only reason power comes into play at all is because throughout history, racism has been widely accepted until relatively recently, giving the more industrial developed countries what they believed to be justification to exploit the people of less developed nations. It only so happened that the more industrial developed countries were the european nations.
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