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Would you mind stop overloading the word racist with more definitions? People can be nationalists or biased towards group identities with many different flavors

Would you mind stop overloading the word racist with more definitions? People can be nationalists or biased towards group identities with many different flavors. The underlying issue is that people get discriminated. And besides, the Brits are a very mature ethnic identity, as such, they've had many centuries to come up with and nourish many different ways to discriminate - be it which village you come from, what school you attended, which football/sports club you affiliate with and which side of the street your pub resides on.

DanBC 6y ago
> Would you mind stop overloading the word racist with more definitions? Racism has been linked with discrimination against nationality for many years. In the UK the Race Relations Act 1965 (55 years ago) included "national origin".
nobody9999 6y ago
>Would you mind stop overloading the word racist with more definitions? People can be nationalists or biased towards group identities with many different flavors. The underlying issue is that people get discriminated. I completely agree. I prefer 'bigotry' rather than 'racism'. Mostly for the reasons you suggest, but also that 'racism' is a nonsensical term in the context of biology. Homo Sapiens is a single species. As such, one could be racist against dolphins or dogs or daffodils, but not humans. But we can still hate and be bigoted against those who don't look or talk or dress or act like "us."