> The problem is that these words have become nearly meaningless from vast overuse i do think it's sometimes thrown around unfairly. however, from the other d

> The problem is that these words have become nearly meaningless from vast overuse i do think it's sometimes thrown around unfairly. however, from the other direction the criteria for such is nearly impossible. for some, racism 'doesn't exist anymore' and short of explicitly saying 'i am a legit racist for realz' everything can be explained away. be it 'race realism', stat framing or a variety of other things. part of this is the issue of what it means 'to be a racist'. some people would (for example) happily endorse laws that would disproportionately burden hispanic americans and harass hispanics of any sort, but claim they're 'not racist' because they 'don't care about color'. basically this dialectic allows real world racist activity through deferring the assessment of racism to a fundamentally unknowable and unprovable internal state.