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mindover | 3 years ago

Why are you conflating interpersonal racism with systemic? Both exist. If a white person is racist towards a black person do you call that racial bias? If you do, you are just replacing the established definition of racism, not addressing the phenomenon itself.

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jjeaff|3 years ago

Because the suffix "ism" doesn't really refer to interpersonal things. It connotes a system.

Some may not agree with the distinction, but the reality that racial bias without power and a system behind it is not really the same thing. Which is why there is not equivalent to things like the "n" word for white people.