racism is the belief that different races possess distinct characteristics, abilities, or qualities, especially so as to distinguish them as inferior or superior to one another. i dont think theres white oppression in america but thats different. for example if i was a white american in an asian country i would be part of a minority, but that doesnt mean i cant be racist towards an asian person. in the text book definition of racism it says that racism is typically experienced towards a racial or ethnic group that is marginalized or a minority. not always.

I agree, that individuals can be discriminatory, to each other, all I’m saying is that racism and racist, is a very heavy word that has history and meaning behind, it. Again like I said, it impiles both systemtic and insitutional discrmination. And while I definelty DON’T support discrmination from anyone, using the word racist, in a situation that is just discrimnatory, is wrong and downplays the actual effects and meaning of the word racist.

Is this ur defense? that the white guy who wrote the oxford dictionary was a psychiatirc hospital patient and a paranoid murderer, like how those that make it any better. I just googled him and he was literally an old white guy.

@wgone:disqus and @disqus_CT9GPb5XvU:disqus Most racism is experienced by P.O.C’s. Have you been hearing what’s happening these past days? A white man shot up multiple Asian parlors, killing innocent women and he was still able to live after all that. Even the sheriff gave excuses like “oh he had a bad day yesterday”, on why the man killed those innocent women. If it was a black man, you already know that he would’ve been shot on sight. Man, he was even lightly and politely handled down on the scene. Now if that’s not racism I don’t know what is. Most of the racism is definitely not towards people of the white descent. It may seem like only white people are experiencing racism, but just remember how the media is being controlled nowadays. I’m not trying to justify racism towards anyone at all, but I am just trying to inform you that most racism is definitely not towards whites, its time to speak up everyone.

Racism started with Homo habilis, which looked like monkeys, so no white people did not start racism, and they weren’t the last to perpetuate is as some of the few countries that still have slavery in 2021 are in Africa. You think that whites cant experience racism because you define them all as racist and subhuman. I would never expect an incompetent racist to understand that he is racist. Enjoy living your life under a rock.

I’m sure if Hitler came back to life and renamed the Nazis to the ‘Stop Donald Trump Army’, you would believe them at face value and join in a second. ANTIFA uses facism. The name is a way to mislead stupid people.

Fact: Democrats and their politics have commercialized racism once again. It was slavery today it is illegal immigrants are the new slaves. When blacks in the 1800 refused to work on the plantations, the British and Europeans brought Asians and Indians as indentured laborers. Today the white middle and working class want better living, so the elites are importing a new slave class – Mexicans and central Americans while those countries will be denied any future development. They have commercialized racism with “Critical Race Theory” and all the consultants, instutionalization of race politics of the education system from kindergarten to universities to books to SPLC, ADL etc – all harnesing racism and hate to new levels of commerce.

omg, this is sad. I’m sorry that you have a inferioty complex. But um yes europeans abolished slavery, but they where the ones that started it on a large scale, you can’t just create a problem and then solve it. Also I would love to see proof of one how this is a hate article, and how the media is “exterminating” the white middle class. I would encourage you to seek therapy for your crippling inferioty complex, and to also question and not just follow what people say blindly, like some kind of sheep.

but that was caucasian drawing lines and using slurs against them selves, how is it racist if their all the same race?, its classit yes, anti-immigrant definelty, horrible and cruel, sure, but racist I’m not sure I agree. Theres a word for this its called xenophobia, not racist.

I like what some of the black conservative pundits say about woke people. (I’m not conservative btw) The white left is far more racist because when they see a black person all they can see is their race. They think they’re a champion for the black community but they’re putting them in the same box.

IT IS NOT THE SAME, god what do we need to do, go back to the 16th century and colonize and enslave, ur people. Like how hard is it to understand

God, what is happening to the human race. This story, isn’t rascim but just a horrible work environment and a horrible boss, what does any of that have to do with her race. Also she can quit, she can walk back out into a society that manily accepts her and looks like her, where representation isn’t a thing she has to work for, where no police officer shots at her just because she’s white. RACISM, isn’t discrimination. Also WHAT the NAACP was created by black people, because of the actual racism they where facing at the time, I’m sorry but I refuse to compare, lynchings and having to face the KKK with the breaking of labor laws. If you want an NAACP, make one, and laughed at cause you don’t need one. Geez, complain about bad bosses, minimun wage and capitalism, but don’t use this as an example of rascim. Just because the, honestly truly horrible supervisor is black, doesn’t mean that is automatically rasicm.

Sterotypes. It really funny that you say this, because poc’s have been going through this from day one. When people say “white people” we all know who they’re talking about, especially if its in Amercia, lets not act like we don’t. And we are talking about “reverse rasicm” not the discrimination and class lines, that white people, or caucasians if you want to say that, drew among themselves. Again, the word Racism is not just a buzz word it has depth and meaning, it is NOT the same as discrimination or predjucie. There is a reason those words have diffrent definitions from the word racism, which impiles insitutional and systemic discrimination. And I understand this might be an unpopular stance, but I just don’t see how a majority group, could ever complain about being oppressed by a minority group, its just not logical, literally how. Maybe I’m ignorant on the topic of white “oppresion” and if I am please educate me, but I just don’t see how it is in any why refelcted in American society. Yes everyone is human, but equality doesn’t mean equity.

You really are stupid.

You really are stupid.

Its dishonest to reframe a meaning. Racisms true meaning is “Prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one’s own race is superior.”
– When people start tinkering with definitions of words – You can be sure they are up to altering reality of meaning, in this case it is to mask bigoted and racist attitudes.

Boigoted:obstinately or unreasonably attached to a belief, opinion, or faction, in particular prejudiced against or antagonistic towards a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular group.

Is this a joke? Are you that tone deaf?? There is absolutely no way you can actually be serious.

You are absolutely ridiculous. It’s hard to think that you actually take yourself seriously.

Hailee Schievelbein is a super racist.

nobody created racism racism is an idea. saying “you guys…” “white people cant….” “you guys think that…” is stereotypical. what most of beth said is definitely exaggerated and everything else was just untrue, but you shouldnt jus blurt out stereotypes that dont help anybody. when you say “white people” you’re referring to a very broad spectrum of people over hundreds of different countries with lighter skin complexions. im white and never experienced what i would classify as racism living in california my whole life, but not everybody is in my same situation. millions of jewish people were tortured and killed not because of their skin tone specifically but because of their features and family tree. irish people were indentured servants not because of their skin color specifically, but basically for the same reasons as jewish people. ive heard lots of stories of people from ukraine that experienced racism before migrating to the united states but were quickly told that they cant complain because they were “white”, and there was no possible way they could experience any type of oppression. i think theres different types of ways you can experience racism and i think that everybody should be more mindful and accepting of the people around them and understand that everybody is human.

Simply life is what you make of it, what you put in you get out. That’s my experience. I put in very little other than bad decisions for many years. Ive served 7 plus years in jails and prisons due to those choices. Ive been subjected to racism while incarcerated many times daily. The term “cracker” is indeed racist and I was called this term for a couple years straight daily. I had to maintain my composure as a “man” as an “american”. I didn’t throw a fit because of what another spiteful idiot said to me, in order to get an reaction from me. Stupid people say stupid things. Dumber people react negatively to those said things. If I would have reacted negatively to those comments it would constitute that I myself is racist, as my said anger would have proved. But instead, when anyone calls me a cracker, I take pride in it. My heritage is not my fault, I did not control those peoples actions or thoughts. I can only control my thoughts and actions. So in order to avoid the anger fueled from racist comments aim towards myself, I’ve learned to love my heritage, and where I have came from, even though I don’t agree with what my ancestors did. But it gives me the power to brush off, and not even care about the racism that’s aimed at myself. Those hateful, thin skinned people don’t deserve one breath from me. I don’t entertain them. The real power is in silence, and composure, and clout. To understand what you are your heritage and creed, and to understand how to empower yourself to move ahead and gain more class. In other more simpler terms, racism is only racism if you take it that way, and give it and its user the acknowledgement they are so begging for. We’re all divided by the same things and same people regardless of color. We’re divided by class, money, and media, and thats as simple as it is. We’re divided by class and money, and thats the bait, the media does the switch to racism, to keep everyone else distracted with each other. While they go and do whatever they want, enforce policies that destroy this planet, build bombs fight wars, make nukes, enforce petty laws, and make new even worse laws against the rest of us as a whole! These laws are widely aimed, and not aimed at one color. The only people aiming color at each other are the low class. While the high class enjoy their lifes. Stop giving this crap all your attention and lets move on to some real issues, like livable wages for all, equal health care for all, and public collages. So that all creeds can have the same chance at success, as these wealthy families who are indulging in all the freedoms and privileges the rest of us do not have the same opportunity to indulge in. Let’s use our brains to lift our society as a whole, cause pointing fingers at each other has not done a single thing yet, nor will it ever. If we continue to point fingers we all will continue to lose as a whole, and the only people who will win are the same people who keep us divided, and promote these made up delusions for you simple minded lower class people to believe in.

It’s because the hatred is planted into them at an early age.
The victim mentality.
Never wanting to move forward and always blaming whites for it.
It’s easier that way, not taking responsibility.

This is a false narrative engineered by someone intent on painting white people into a corner. The narrative is crafted deliberately in a way to suggest that reverse racism can’t possibly exist because white people retain a predominant position of power; and that position of power has institutionalized a system of racism. Bolgna! That’s crafting a definition to fit a purposeful agenda meant to be read between the lines – a la Whites are the root of all evil, therefore, all of us who are non-white are entitled to continuously besmirch white people and strip them of privilege. While it may be true that white people have and do retain a predominant position of power, and may have been privileged for many decades, and it may be true that there are a lot of white people who harbor racist attitudes (which are sometimes manifest openly), one could argue that this very article is an exhibition of racism (for the sheer fact that it has race-baited). It would be far better to own the truth – racism, whether coined as “direct” or “reverse’ or any other direction, is a matter of prejudice, discrimination, marginalization and/or antagonism directed at any individual or group of people because of their ethnicity, color, or racial DNA. It is therefore a thing that can go in any direction and encompass any scale; and in fact it may exist within the same ethos – as in one black person may accuse another of not being dark enough, or one white person may threaten another white person for not harboring similar belligerencies. Just as there is direct racism there is absolutely so-called reverse racism (which is all just directional semantics) and it is gaining momentum because of articles like this – an article that overtly attempts to anoint authorization and immunity to minorities who harbor ill-will and derision toward any other ethnicity, color, or racial DNA (including whites). Do not let intellectualism override truth. Too many people think they are smart enough to craft a new narrative or add to a popularized narrative; yet the truth will remain the truth. There are a lot of racists in every color – but the mere act of judging someone or accusing someone of being a racist without proverbially having stood in their shoes, is probably also racist.

A white latino? I’m assuming you mean an individual born of a white parent and a Latin American parent? In Mexico they would be called Chicano.
Also, ‘Hispanic’ refers to the Spanish language population and Latino refers to those from Latin American countries. HOWEVER, YOU don’t get to choose what “race” is, considering that the largest percentage of either of those populations consider being Hispanic or Latino as part of their racial identity, not as a separate category or defining characteristic.

Holy shit you are ignorant. Kindly educate yourselves on industrial-Era racism in America. Back then people hated ALL immigrants and saw them all as one minority group they hated. Irish especially, they had ethnic slurs and discriminated against them. Yeah they are white, but they weren’t American and thus didn’t feel white in their eyes.

Technically, we are all people, regardless of origin. But so many want to feel some sort of superiority. The problem is the need to specify all the dang time, as if we aren’t all the same. Pardon me while I go try to be “less white” so I won’t be shamed by the universe for pigment I had no control over or being a mix and not being ashamed of it.

I think ethnic group would be, for example, Jewish, so yes. Because antisemitism is a form of racism.

Not just other countries. In Hawaii when I grew up, basically it’s own melting pot, black people were treated poorly by the natives, and natives were treated poorly by the haole, and the haole were treated poorly by everyone. It was like a vicious cycle of gossip and hatred, but luckily we had good weather and beautiful sunsets to help forget.

“you guys”…

Really??? that’s the only kind of white ethnic backgrounds?? You sound so stupid. You need to pick up a history book before you look even more ridiculous

Three words same meaning!

No you are wrong! Saying or thinking white people cant cook or dance is a stereotype not a prejudice! Before you start telling others to look deeper into a word take your own advice.. not liking and being prejudice towards someone for their race is racism no matter how many people want to act like it’s so different!

What is the difference between the two? Racial prejudice or racism?? Nothing hating someone for the color of skin is the same!!!! Racist!! To say other wise is ridiculous.

Thanks Boston for your simple and common sense definition.

I agree with Simba, whereas S.U. above is being manipulative and bullying. This is a real issue, but you want to stop on it, S.U. because it’s not about you. Enough, already! The Golden Rule says treat others as you want to be treated. It’s simple, S.U. Stop bullying.

Most of the racism i see on a regular basis is towards White people. Im black. Systematically, it is white people who are denied jobs and education and beaten up on the streets in random acts of violence. There is no such thing as “reverse racism” there is racism – and democrats and their intuitions are very racist. Hate articles like these encourage racism towards whites. Whites beaten up on the streets and targeted by blacks empowered by nonsense like this. In fact the democratic party and their intuitions – the media and academia are in the process of exterminating white middle class people who are inconvenient for them because they cant be controlled. It was the Europeans that abolished slavery, created the concept of equality while the rest of the world remained in the dark ages to TODAY.

As a brown hispanic I find it completely absurd. I was raised that if I experienced discrimination to rise above it and not assume the dysfunctional role of victim.

Racism is how you are treated based on what you appear to be. If you look white you are treated as such. You people are moronic and sick at the same time.

You can be racist towards the same people in your race groups, i’ve seen it and i’ve participated in it

Please the “slur” was probably cracker. Isnt the same level.

But like, that’s not what it says in the dictionary. Racism and prejudice are listed as synonyms.

Because “white” is just a made up term. Do you think Irish and Italians don’t have racial divisions all over the country? Racism is often worst against the people who are most similar to you

So when I lived in a foreign country and was denied service by the racial group in power and called slurs for having white skin, what would that be called?

You only say white people can experience racism, because you just want to prove that not only people of color have it hard when it comes to racism. You guys literally want to be oppressed so bad. Like why can’t you acknowledge the privilege you have and use it to help other people that don’t have it? Why do you guys always have to make everything about you?

I’ve literally never heard a black person tell a white person that their opinion doesn’t matter, it’s the other way around bud.

racial prejudice is racism LOL

HAHA

Wait, are you actually trying to be serious? You clearly don’t understand what an “Uncle Tom” even is. Hint, it’s when you’re willing to throw your race under the bus to achieve token benefits. White people have power, so I can’t do that, first of all. Second, I’m not white. Surprise! I’m one of those Mexican people looking to fool you racist idiots.

No. Stupid. Not all White people know their ancestry. That’s racist, to make an assumption, based on race. You’re basically a white Uncle Tom.

It is not even comparable between trying to find out if you’re some white person trying to find out if you really have a Cherokee princess in your history versus an entire group of people systemically having their cultural identity destroyed as part of making them into your slaves by giving them nothing else to hold onto.

Racism isn’t only defined by melanin or skin tone. Two people can appear white or “pale” but be from separate races. Simplifying race into skin tone is the very basis of refusing to admit that other races are capable of actual racism. Without this faulty information of “race means color,” there is nothing left for actual racially prejudice people to hide behind. Check out some history other than Google and the origination of the term.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_(human_categorization)

We actually learned what Reverse Racism was in grade school. Long before a Superior race decided to recreate the term and dictate who was allowed to use it.

Agreed. I think much of this came from the term “African American.” I wouldn’t want to identify as this if I knew (or wasn’t even sure) my ancestors didn’t come from Africa. Also, calling people of color black isn’t very inclusive either. Not every person of color is black. There are many shades and I can appreciate all of them. Calling them black doesn’t even sit well. I’m sure not all Americans still think this way of “they must come from Africa” though. At least let’s hope not.

The definition is very clear; anyone can be a victim of racism and denying that a race can experience racism because their race is inferior/superior is also a form of racism.

I notice you give a very light hypothetical example, but what about someone targeting a white person of jewish-german descent and killing them because they are white and falsely believe that this jewish-german had some involvement in their experiences with oppression. The very idea of lumping this person with, say a native US southern ex-KKK member because they share the same skin color is nothing less than racism, especially when one was almost wiped from the face of the earth fairly recently in America’s long history. Sugar coating this incident as ‘racial prejudice’ and not flat out racism is doing this situation and the equality movement a huge injustice.

racial prejudice is in the definition of racism 😉 Oxford – “PREJUDICE, discrimination, or antagonism by an INDIVIDUAL, community, or institution against A PERSON or people on the basis of their membership of a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that is a minority or marginalized.” I capitalised the important parts for you.

Nah sweetie. But I understand your frustration. #sadface

God you people are stupid.

No thanks. I’m going to keep talking. White people cannot face racism in America, and that’s the truth. You guys can experience racial prejudice but not racism.

No, it’s straight racism. Whether you want to believe it or not.

You’re so stupid it’s actually entertaining.

Again that isn’t racism, but racial prejudice. Racism is more than that. Racism itself is systematic because once you add -ism to any form of discrimination, it then becomes systemic. The prefix -ism refers to a distinctive belief, theory, system, or practice. Hence the “system”. It’ll become more clear once you do your own research. I too use to believe you could be racist to white people, because I thought that prejudice was a form of racism, but that is not true. Prejudice itself is just that, prejudice.

That’s not necessarily racism, but more so racial prejudice since racism is more than that.

Why does that matter lol? It’s literally just capitalization.

Thanks to enslavers, many Black people do not have cultural identities. They don’t know which tribes or parts of Africa their ancestors hail from. So Black has become their new cultural identity. Meanwhile, white people aren’t in the same boat. You know if you’re Dutch, English, Welsh, German, etc.

Sociology..your own Darwin, a sociologist.. Reverse racism is racism against the white race. I’m guessing your target audience doesn’t read the comments… I don’t see where any examples were by the top founding fathers of sociology..Spencer,

It’s interesting to see people thinking that they aren’t racist by stereotyping a whole skin color as ‘racist’

So what about the Black community that specifically will tell White people that their opinion doesn’t matter, more specifically Black men treating women like we still don’t have right? Example, black man says he doesn’t want any fat girls, women try to correct him so he’ll say he likes fit, athletic women instead but we don’t matter because we’re white and we’re women (black women were getting the same treatment) it’s disgusting to see it brushed off like this “because reverse racism isn’t a thing” there are definitely parts of the world that aren’t the US where white people experience racism, and since I seen it first hand, we’ll throw south africa out there, and a south african woman has confirmed this, she’s indian and deals with the above attitude all the time.

A racist is someone who thinks their race is superior and that all other races are untrustworthy or bad. These people who say that their race is too superior to be racist but whites arent, are text book definitions of racists.

Hahahaha. This must be satire.

As a white English person who moved to rural Ireland as a child in the early 1990’s; kindly shove your sweeping generalizations and assumptions up your collective editorial asses. You could not sound less informed and more disconnected from the non-US world.

Our family was constantly subjected to everyday, institutional and violent racial and sectarian abuse and discrimination because we were English. And before you use you power and privilege metric; at best we were evenly privileged but most often the power was COMPLETELY against us being the only English people in town. The racism was met at EVERY level of our lives for the first decade of our life here. In school, on the street, in sports clubs, with law enforcement. Institutional racism.

And before you say we were all white; it’s just a racist as people in the US abusing Polish, or Irish, or South African peoples. It’s racist.