Racism

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Racism is the belief that different "races" (a term which does not have a universal or specific definition) may generally be rated in terms of their superiority or inferiority to each other, and that members of races which are deemed "superior" should enjoy greater privileges than members of those deemed "inferior".

Those who adhere to such beliefs tend to consider themselves as belonging to the race they consider "superior".

Racism is distinct from prejudice or bias in that most people work to overcome their prejudices, while a racist nurtures and protects such prejudices from the evidence, experiences, and rational criticism which would otherwise reduce or eliminate them over time. Conscious racism is therefore, by nature, counterfactual.

Types

There are multiple types or levels of racism, including at least the following (and using white-against-black racism as the example):

Type 1 Supremist: KKK, white supremacy, tries to restrict rights of non-white people via means legal and illegal; may openly use racial slurs, or more subtle expressions such as concerns about the fate of "Western civilization" in the face of multiculturalism; views other races as not fully human
Type 2, Separatist: Doesn't actually wish harm to non-whites or necessarily believe they are inferior, but doesn't want anything to do with them. Supports "separate but equal" segregation.
Type 3, Reactive: Has nothing against black people per se, but doesn't understand why black people are angry at white people, doesn't see the need for programs and policies to counter existing discrimination. "All lives matter", "I'm colorblind", "the race card", election of Obama proves that racism is over. (This is distinguished from type 2 in that a type 3 white racist would be fine with living next to a black person, while a type 2 white racist would not.)

Types 2 and 3 are typically expressed via unacknowledged bias in one's choices or perceptions, rather than overt statements (shouting slurs, or stating that one "race" is superior to the other); in early 21st-century America, for example, it more commonly takes the form of going to much greater lengths to prosecute or exclude a member of a disempowered race than would ever be done for someone of the dominant race – "eagerly looking for reasons why a black kid needed to die", as one comment put it.

Links

Reference

Wikipedia
Conservapedia : (2008-02-05) short article mainly discussing racism in the US
dKosopedia: (2008-02-05) very brief article
SourceWatch
CWRE: Myths/racism is over

Filed Links

many of these need to be moved to US racism

News

2026-02-15 [L..T] ‘We Don’t Take Food Stamp’: Black Manager Says Something Was Very Wrong Inside Philadelphia Chick-fil-A and Speaking Up Got Her Fired «In her federal civil rights lawsuit filed on Jan. 29 (and obtained by Atlanta Black Star), Tiffany Lynch, 38, claims that Joshua Grimm, owner/operator and president of the Chick-fil-A franchise in Wayne, Pennsylvania, created a hostile work environment by making discriminatory jokes and comments and treated Black employees and job applicants differently than their white counterparts. [..] When she objected to the discrimination, Lynch says, she was fired in retaliation.»
2026-01-26 [L..T] Our Neighbors in Minneapolis (or: What I Saw While I Was There) «ICE is there to kidnap black and brown people. They’re not subtle about their racism—even the local police have complained about how all of their off-duty non-white officers are being harassed by federal agents. Masked, unmarked men are simply snatching people out of their cars, throwing them into unmarked SUVs, and driving them away, often to never to see their loved ones again. People’s cars are left abandoned in the streets, sometimes still running, sometimes still in drive.»
2026-01-16 17:39 UTC [L..T] Family of U.S. citizen detained by ICE in St. Paul seeks her release «Nasra Ahmed, 23, left her family’s apartment complex on Lower Afton Road in St. Paul around 11 a.m. Wednesday on the way to the pharmacy to pick up her medicine. A car occupied by at least two Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulled into the parking lot and demanded to see her papers.» Despite being a US citizen born in Minnesota who had never even been to Somalia, the «ICE agents detained her anyway, leaving her family uncertain of her whereabouts for at least 24 hours. Her father, Mohamed Ahmed, called [state Rep. Samakab] Hussein in tears, pleading for any information, and the representative tracked her to the Sherburne County Jail, where she’s being held without bail pending possible felony charges.»
2026-01-14 [L..T] Ilhan Omar Effortlessly Drags Elon Musk After He Parrots Easily-Debunked Conspiracy About Her Elon Musk: «This has been happening for years. Ilhan Omar is the most obvious example. A large number of relatively recently arrived Somalis will elect only a Somali to Congress in that Minnesota district. This is much more subtle, but just as bad, in many other parts of America.» Ilhan Omar (replying on X-Twitter): «You are one of the dumbest people on earth, my district is literally a majority white district. Your conspiracy theories are laughable and should have no place in a society that cares about facts.»
2026-01-03 [L..T] Apologies For Being White How supremacists convert responsibility into blame to avoid paying natural costs and to make everyone else pay unnatural ones.
2025-10-15 [L..T] ‘Fake Apology!’: Chick-fil-A Sparks Outrage After Black Officer Was Forced to Pay While White Partners Ate Free — Then Came the Excuse No One’s Buying «A Black police officer said his visit to his local Chick-fil-A left him feeling embarrassed and humiliated after his three white colleagues were all given free breakfast while he was left to pay for his meal. [..] Tracey Reid, a police officer in Clover, South Carolina, said he and his partners were all in uniform when they went to get breakfast at a Chick-fil-A in Augusta, Georgia, a few weeks ago during a work trip. [..] Reid said it’s normal for restaurant chains to offer police officers and other first responders complimentary meals as a gesture of appreciation for their service. [..] However, while they were in line, the staff members only offered free meals to Reid’s three white partners, but Reid had to pay for his food at the register. [..] “We came in together, same uniform, stood in line, there was never a time we were not together while standing in line,” Reid’s colleague, Clover Police Sgt. J. Gordon, told WSOC-TV.»
2025-05-26 [L..T] ‘Shut Up, Ape, Before I Put You In a Cage!’: Black Chick-fil-A Worker In Idaho Filed 30 Complaints But Was Forced to Endure the Racist Abuse Because Harassers ‘Couldn’t Be Fired,’ Lawsuit Claims «A Black man who worked as a cook at a Chick-fil-A restaurant in Idaho filed a federal employment discrimination lawsuit claiming his co-workers subjected him to relentless racial harassment, including calling him an “ape” and “ni—er” and comparing him to a slave. [..] According to his complaint obtained by Atlanta Black Star, shortly after Thomas Wade started working as a cook at the Chick-Fil-A franchise in Ammon, a suburb of Idaho Falls, in December 2022, he applied for the company’s leadership development program but was passed over for a white male employee.» ... «In March of 2023, Wade says he “intervened” when Isaiah Ibarra, Eric’s son, and another employee were antagonizing a third co-worker. [..] “Shut up, ape, before I put you in a cage,” Isaiah Ibarra allegedly said to Wade. [..] When Wade said he would report the conduct to management, Isaiah allegedly called him a “monkey-looking ass” and warned him that “my parents own this store.”»
2025-05-22 [L..T] ‘Muscular and Dark-Skinned’: White Frito-Lay Supervisor Calls Black Worker ‘Big Scary Black Guy,’ Then the Company Fires Him After He Complained About Racial Comments, Lawsuit Says «A Black man who claims he complained about being called “a big scary Black guy” by his white supervisor at Frito-Lay’s plant in Topeka and was fired soon after is suing the company for $300,000. [..] Michael Whitfield started working as a sanitor for Frito-Lay in September 2023, cleaning the food plant’s equipment and facilities. According to his lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Kansas on May 5, the company never raised any issues about his job performance until he complained about racial harassment to his union and management.»
2022-12-03 05:41 UTC [L..T] (social post) «There is no such thing as the tragedy of the commons: a thread.»
2019-04-23 [L..T] The Tragedy of the Tragedy of the Commons «The man who wrote one of environmentalism’s most-cited essays was a racist, eugenicist, nativist and Islamaphobe – plus his argument was wrong.»
2018-07-04 [L..T] Sheriff's office called on Oregon state legislator for representing constituents while black “"Casing" the neighborhood by knocking on doors and having extended conversations with the homeowners, carrying only a phone, a pen, and some leaflets. Bynum appears to have, sadly, taken it in stride. "It was just bizarre," she told an Oregonian reporter. "It boils down to people not knowing their neighbors and people having a sense of fear in their neighborhoods, which is kind of my job to help eradicate. But at the end of the day, it's important for people to feel like they can talk to each other to help minimize misunderstandings." Indeed. Had the woman who called the cops – it was a woman – simply engaged with Bynum, problem solved.”
2014-04-24 [L..T] Conservatives begin backing away after Cliven Bundy's remarks disparaging "the Negro" "Republican politicians began backtracking on their support of Nevada anti-government rancher Cliven Bundy after the New York Times caught Bundy making racially-inflammatory remarks blaming African-Americans for willingly submiting to dependency on federal assistance."
2014-04-22 [L..T] The End Of Affirmative Action?
2014-04-21 [L..T] Take A Look At This Picture, According To The State Of New Jersey, This Is OK. "Someone had the bright idea after winning the state championship to get the black dummy, string it up and gather around it. How could this be the first thing you think of doing after achieving a season long goal? They felt it was OK."
2014-04-03 [L..T] [[2014/04/03/Studies Confirm the Dehumanization of Black Children|]] "...black youth are far more likely to be suspended from school than any other race. They also face disproportionate expulsion and arrest rates, and once children enter the juvenile justice system they are far more likely to be incarcerated as adults."
2014-02-27 [L..T] One-third of California town's police force arrested for scheming cars from poor Hispanics Investigators say King City police ordered hundreds of vehicles to be impounded – most often those driven by Hispanic immigrants – and then either kept the cars for themselves or re-sold them for profit.
2014-02-14 [L..T] How the Myth of the "Negro Cocaine Fiend" Helped Shape American Drug Policy «In 1914, a racist fiction helped sell one of the nation's first drug laws; 100 years later, it's still with us.»
2012-10-27 [L..T] [[2012/10/27/Majority of Americans racist|]] "The election of Barack Obama failed to usher in a post-racial US, with a new poll showing that 51 percent of Americans hold explicitly anti-black views. That figure is up from 48 percent in 2008, the year America elected its first black president."
2012-08-19 [L..T] Racism by Political Party "It is undeniable that some Americans are racist but racists split about evenly across the parties. No party has a monopoly on racists."
2007-12-20 [L..T] "Angry Black Man" Does GOTV «The calls were extremely highly targeted, household by household, no message ever left on an answering machine. We wanted the message heard only by people whose reaction would be "I'm not voting for Holt because he uses scary black men to call my house."»
2006-12-12 [L..T] Poll: Most Americans see lingering racism -- in others "Most Americans, white and black, see racism as a lingering problem in the United States, and many say they know people who are racist, according to a new poll. [..] But few Americans of either race -- about one out of eight -- consider themselves racist."

Data

2008-02-02 Amazing Racism: A study of the English football (soccer) league between 1978 and 1993 showed that "Clubs that bucked the norm and fielded several black players did not suffer lower attendance or revenues as a result. But they did enjoy a higher league position with a lower wage bill than the typical club – clear evidence that black players were underpaid on racial grounds."

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