Re:The Strange Case of Dr. Ho Man Kwok (2019)
by dragonwriter on Monday December 21, 2020 @03:24PM
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> they’ve redefined “racism” to mean “at a minimum, stereotyping another person from a position of power or authority”.
Nitpick: you left out “on the basis of race/ethnicity”.
But the bigger problem is that while that definition is somewhat controversial (and not at all recent), it was a narrowing of the pre-existing and generally accepted definition, which is identical but without the restriction “from a perception of power or authority”.
> The implications of that new definition are that many people who were previously guilty of stereotyping, are now racist.
No, the implication of the “new” (50 years old this year) definition is that members of disadvantaged racial minorities cannot, generally, be properly viewed as “racist”. It narrows, rather than expands, what is understood by “racism”.
Nitpick: you left out “on the basis of race/ethnicity”.
But the bigger problem is that while that definition is somewhat controversial (and not at all recent), it was a narrowing of the pre-existing and generally accepted definition, which is identical but without the restriction “from a perception of power or authority”.
> The implications of that new definition are that many people who were previously guilty of stereotyping, are now racist.
No, the implication of the “new” (50 years old this year) definition is that members of disadvantaged racial minorities cannot, generally, be properly viewed as “racist”. It narrows, rather than expands, what is understood by “racism”.