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Everything else aside, the term makes sense. It’s not the reverse of racism. It’s racism in the reverse direction than the more “traditional” one.
by DavidSJ 6y ago
Everything else aside, the term makes sense.
It’s not the reverse of racism. It’s racism in the reverse direction than the more “traditional” one.
- throwaway894345 6y agoI buy that reasoning standalone (albeit it's still prone to misinterpretation), but in context its advocates appear to believe it is congruent with or equivalent to 'equality'.
- thephyber 6y agoIn mathematical terms it might be similar to lay persons confusing inverse for converse. “Reverse” is not the most precise word for the term, but so long as there is no compiler error when a person uses the wrong word, human natural language will continue to be sloppy. Let’s stop being overly pedantic — that is one of the guidelines of this site
- throwaway894345 6y agoIt’s not pedantry. People think that because the word is “reverse” or “anti” that it means “the opposite of racist”, but it doesn’t. The distinction is fundamental to our national race conversation.