At the core, "racism" means: discrimination because of race. This happens very often because that race is also a minority. So much so that most experience of

At the core, "racism" means: discrimination because of race. This happens very often because that race is also a minority. So much so that most experience of racism is also the experience of being discriminated for being a minority. That doesn't make racism against a majority in the wider population less racist. It just doesn't make it racism and not minority discrimination. The "reverse" of something that isn't strictly a logical statement could mean any number of things: is "reverse racism" positive discrimination? Is it the lack of discrimination because of race? Is it discrimination because of lack of racial identity? is it simply "msicar" (racism spelled backwards)? What one tries to say is: "Reverse racism" is supposed to mean "racist behavior towards a group of people that make out the majority of the population". That has a word: It's "racism". It unfortunately overlaps with the type of racism that happens on minorities, but there's nothing "reverse" about it. "Reverse" carries some undertone of "retributal", as in being racist back because of racist treatment... there's a whole can of worms of implied meaning here that is not well-intended or seeks to understand why people behave racist. Whereas if you use the term "racism" to describe this behavior, it's actually well-defined.